The cosmological constant from Planckian fluctuations and the averaging procedure

DOI10.1007/S10701-019-00308-5MaRDI QIDQ2286512zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Stefano Viaggiu

Publication date 22 January 2020

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12463

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constantaveraging proceduredecoherence lengthMisner-Sharp energyPlanckian fluctuations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: In this paper I continue the investigation in cite{1,1b} concerning my proposal on the nature of the cosmological constant. In particular, I study both mathematically and physically the quantum Planckian context and I provide, in order to depict quantum fluctuations and in absence of a complete quantum gravity theory, a semiclassical solution where an effective inhomogeneous metric at Planckian scales or above is averaged. In such a framework, a generalization of the well known Buchert formalism cite{2} is obtained with the foliation in terms of the mean value $s(hatt)$ of the time operator $hatt$ in a maximally localizing state $s$ of a quantum spacetime cite{3,4,5,6} and in a cosmological context cite{7}. As a result, after introducing a decoherence length scale $L_D$ where quantum fluctuations are averaged on, a classical de Sitter universe emerges with a small cosmological constant depending on $L_D$ and frozen in a true vacuum state (lowest energy), provided that the kinematical backreaction is negligible at that scale $L_D$. Finally, I analyse the case with a non-vanishing initial spatial curvature $mathcalR$ showing that, for a reasonable large class of models, spatial curvature and kinematical backreation $mathcalQ$ are suppressed by the dynamical evolution of the spacetime.

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