On the cosmological constant as a quantum operator

DOI10.1142/S0219887823500652MaRDI QIDQ6148743zbMATH OpenFDO

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Publication date 11 January 2024

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.14611

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constantFLRW spacesMOND gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

Abstract: We regard the cosmological fluid within an exponentially expanding FLRW spacetime as the probability fluid of a nonrelativistic Schroedinger field. The scalar Schroedinger particle so described has a mass equal to the total (baryonic plus dark) matter content of the Universe. This procedure allows a description of the cosmological fluid by means of the operator formalism of nonrelativistic quantum theory. Under the assumption of radial symmetry, a quantum operator proportional to $1/r^2$ represents the cosmological constant $Lambda$. The experimentally measured value of $Lambda$ is one of the eigenvalues of $1/r^2$. Next we solve the Poisson equation $abl{a}^{2}U=Lambda$ for the gravitational potential $U(r)$, with the cosmological constant $Lambda(r)=1/r^2$ playing the role of a source term. It turns out that $U(r)$ includes, besides the standard Newtonian potential $1/r$, a correction term proportional to $lnr$ identical to that appearing in theories of modified Newtonian dynamics.

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