GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITY OF THE VACUUM AND THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT PROBLEM

DOI10.1142/S0217751X05028387zbMATH Open1078.83516OpenAlexW2059936479MaRDI QIDQ5697277FDOQ5697277

Authors John W. Moffat

Publication date 17 October 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0410250

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: A mechanism for suppressing the cosmological constant is described, using a superconducting analogy in which fermions coupled to gravitons are in an unstable false vauum. The coupling of the fermions to gravitons and a screened attractive interaction among pairs of fermions generates fermion condensates with zero momentum and a phase transition induces a non-perturbative transition to a true vacuum state. This produces a positive energy gap $Delta$ in the vacuum energy identified with $sqrtLambda$, where $Lambda$ is the cosmological constant. In the strong coupling limit, a large cosmological constant induces a period of inflation in the early universe, followed by a weak coupling limit in which $sqrtLambda$ vanishes exponentially fast as the universe expands due to the dependence of the energy gap on the Fermi surface fermions, predicting a small cosmological constant in the early universe.

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