On the problem of vacuum energy in FLRW universes and dark energy

DOI10.1142/S0217732313501666MaRDI QIDQ2872965zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Badis Ydri, Adel Bouchareb

Publication date 17 January 2014

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2749

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constantdark energyFLRW metricsQFT on curved backgroundsrenormalizationvacuum energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We present a (hopefully) novel calculation of the vacuum energy in expanding FLRW spacetimes based on the renormalization of quantum field theory in non-zero backgrounds. We compute the renormalized effective action up to the $2-$point function and then apply the formalism to the cosmological backgrounds of interest. As an example we calculate for quasi de Sitter spacetimes the leading correction to the vacuum energy given by the tadpole diagram and show that it behaves as $sim{H}_0^{2}Lambd{a}_{mpl}$ where $H_0$ is the Hubble constant and $Lambd{a}_{mpl}$ is the Planck constant. This is of the same order of magnitude as the observed dark energy density in the universe.

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