A mechanism for obtaining a rapidly decreasing cosmological term at classical scales

DOI10.1007/s10714-009-0764-3zbMath1176.83151MaRDI QIDQ1031877

Simon Davis

Publication date: 23 October 2009

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-009-0764-3

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological term; scale transformations; gravitational action finiteness; spatial domain interactions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83F05: Relativistic cosmology

83C45: Quantization of the gravitational field

81S40: Path integrals in quantum mechanics

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