On a physical description and origin of the cosmological constant

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AAE445MaRDI QIDQ5218326zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefano Viaggiu

Publication date 2 March 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.00683

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constantde Sitter universedecoherencequantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: In this paper we use and extend the results present in cite{1,2,3,4} and in particular in cite{4} to obtain a statistical description of the cosmological constant in a cosmological de Sitter universe in terms of massless excitations with Planckian effects. First of all, we show that at a classical level, the cosmological constant $Lambda>0$ can be obtained only for $Tightarrow0$. Similarly to the black hole case, when quantum effects are taken into account, a representation for $Lambda$ is possible in terms of massless excitations, provided that quantum corrections to the Misner-Sharp mass are considered. Moreover, thanks to quantum fluctuations, an effective cosmological constant arises depending on the physical scale under consideration, thus representing a possible solution to the cosmological constant problem without introducing a quintessence field. The smalness of the actual value for $Lambda$ can be due to the existence of a quantum decoherence scale above the Planck length such that the spacetime evolves as a pure de Sitter universe with a small averaged cosmological constant frozen in the lowest energy state.

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