On the Casimir energy for a massive quantum scalar field and the cosmological constant

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2009.07.001zbMATH Open1176.83016arXiv0808.1267OpenAlexW1974509599MaRDI QIDQ734738FDOQ734738

Authors: M. C. Nemes, Walter F. Wreszinski, Gianluca Gazzola 

Publication date: 13 October 2009

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a rigorous, regularization independent local quantum field theoretic treatment of the Casimir effect for a quantum scalar field of mass $mue0$ which yields closed form expressions for the energy density and pressure. As an application we show that there exist special states of the quantum field at fixed cosmic time, in which the expectation value of the renormalized energy-momentum tensor is independent of the space coordinate and is of the perfect fluid form $g_{mu,u}h{o}_{vac}$ with $h{o}_{vac}>0$, thus providing a quantum field theoretic foundation of the Cosmological constant. Using some values of $mu$ suggested in the literature for the hypothetical axion particle, there results a model for dark energy which is consistent with past and future evolution and is also in good agreement with experimental data.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.1267

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constantCasimir effectdark energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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