A SMALL BUT NONZERO COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT

DOI10.1142/S0218271801000627zbMATH Open1155.83367arXivhep-th/9911102MaRDI QIDQ3376489FDOQ3376489

Y. J. Ng, H. van Dam

Publication date: 23 March 2006

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recent astrophysical observations seem to indicate that the cosmological constant is small but nonzero and positive. The old cosmological constant problem asks why it is so small; we must now ask, in addition, why it is nonzero (and is in the range found by recent observations), and why it is positive. In this essay, we try to kill these three metaphorical birds with one stone. That stone is the unimodular theory of gravity, which is the ordinary theory of gravity, except for the way the cosmological constant arises in the theory. We argue that the cosmological constant becomes dynamical, and eventually, in terms of the cosmic scale factor $R(t)$, it takes the form $Lambda(t)=Lambda(t_0)(R(t_0)/R(t){)}^2$, but not before the epoch corresponding to the redshift parameter $zsim1$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9911102

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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