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A Quantum-Mechanical Mechanism for Reducing the Cosmological Constant

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-12-07 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We exhibit a mechanism which dynamically adjusts cosmological constant toward 0+0^+. The adjustment is quantum-mechanical, discharging cosmological constant in random discrete steps. It renders de Sitter space unstable, and triggers its decay toward Minkowski. Since the instability dynamically stops at Λ=0\Lambda = 0, the evolution favors the terminal Minkowski space without a need for anthropics. The mechanism works for any QFT coupled to gravity.

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@article{arxiv.2204.13124,
  title  = {A Quantum-Mechanical Mechanism for Reducing the Cosmological Constant},
  author = {Nemanja Kaloper and Alexander Westphal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.13124},
  year   = {2022}
}

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10 pages LaTeX, 2 figures; v2: additional comments, preprint number added

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