About the measure of the bare cosmological constant

DOI10.1007/S10701-019-00285-9MaRDI QIDQ2286544zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Cerdonio

Publication date 22 January 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08468

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constantcreation of particlesfine-tuninginflationprimordial gravitational wavesrelativistic aspects of cosmologyvacuum energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Gravitational waves (83C35) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: I try to revive, and possibly reconcile, a debate started a few years ago, about the relative roles of a bare cosmological constant and of a vacuum energy, by taking the attitude to try to get the most from the physics now available as established. I notice that the bare cosmological constant of the Einstein equations, which is there ever since GR emerged, is actually constrained (if not measured) indirectly from the effective cosmological constant observed now, as given by Precision Cosmology and from the cumulative vacuum contribution of Standard Model particles, when this is evaluated using the well-established physics of Quantum Field Theory. Therefore the fine tuning, implied by the compensation to a small positive value of the two large contributions, could be seen as offered by Nature, which provides one more fundamental constant, the bare Lambda. The possibility is then discussed of constraining (measuring) directly such a bare cosmological constant by the features of primordial gravitational wave signals. A hint is briefly discussed for a possible bare Lambda inflation process.

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