Robustness of the cosmological constant damping mechanism through matter eras

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AC1851zbMATH Open1482.83129arXiv2010.05927OpenAlexW3093091004MaRDI QIDQ5163076FDOQ5163076

Authors: Oleg Evnin, Victor Massart, Kevin Nguyen 

Publication date: 8 November 2021

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A dynamical resolution to the cosmological constant fine-tuning problem has been previously put forward, based on a scalar-tensor gravitational theory possessing de Sitter attractor solutions characterized by a small Hubble expansion rate, irrespective of an initially large vacuum energy. We show that a technically natural subregion of the parameter space yields a cosmological evolution through radiation- and matter-dominated eras that is essentially indistinguishable from that predicted by General Relativity. Similarly, the proposed model automatically satisfies the observational constraints on a fifth force mediated by the new scalar degree of freedom.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05927

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyscalar-tensor theorynaturalnesscosmological constant problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Matrix models and tensor models for quantum field theory (81T32)

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