The well-tempered cosmological constant: fugue in B^

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/12/037MaRDI QIDQ5027100zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephen A. Appleby, Eric V. Linder

Publication date 3 February 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01723

zbMATH Keywords

dark energy theorymodified gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minkowski geometries in nonlinear incidence geometry (51B20) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Matrix models and tensor models for quantum field theory (81T32) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: Zero point fluctuations of quantum fields should generate a large cosmological constant energy density in any spacetime. How then can we have anything other than de Sitter space without fine tuning? Well tempering -- dynamical cancellation of the cosmological constant using degeneracy within the field equations -- can replace a large cosmological constant with a much lower energy state. Here we give an explicit mechanism to obtain a Minkowski solution, replacing the cosmological constant with zero, and testing its attractor nature and persistence through a vacuum phase transition. We derive the general conditions that Horndeski scalar-tensor gravity must possess, and evolve in a fugue of functions, to deliver nothing and make the universe be flat.

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