Invariance under complex transformations and its relevance to the cosmological constant problem

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/11/009MaRDI QIDQ5481083zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefan Nobbenhuis, Gerard 't Hooft

Publication date 7 August 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0602076

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constantcomplex transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: In this paper we study a new symmetry argument that results in a vacuum state with strictly vanishing vacuum energy. This argument exploits the well-known feature that de Sitter and Anti- de Sitter space are related by analytic continuation. When we drop boundary and hermiticity conditions on quantum fields, we get as many negative as positive energy states, which are related by transformations to complex space. The paper does not directly solve the cosmological constant problem, but explores a new direction that appears worthwhile.

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