Using a non-minimal coupling between matter and curvature to sequester the cosmological constant

DOI10.1007/S10714-020-02695-XzbMATH Open1444.83011arXiv1705.07518OpenAlexW3021179396MaRDI QIDQ776765FDOQ776765

Authors: O. Bertolami, Jorge Páramos 

Publication date: 13 July 2020

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a novel mechanism for generating a Cosmological Constant and suitably sequestering the vacuum contribution to it, so that the eponymous Cosmological Constant problem is avoided. We do so by resorting to a model endowed with a non-minimal coupling between curvature and matter in an appropriately defined relaxed regime, and show that this shares features with both Unimodular gravity as well as a recent proposal to sequester the vacuum contribution through the use of an external term to the action functional.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07518

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constantunimodular gravitynon-minimal coupling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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