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A small non-vanishing cosmological constant from the Krein-Gupta-Bleuler vacuum

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-09-19 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We point out a potential relevance between the Krein-Gupta-Bleuler (KGB) vacuum leading to a fully covariant quantum field theory for gravity in de Sitter (dS) spacetime and the observable smallness of the cosmological constant. This may provide a formulation of linear quantum gravity in a framework amenable to developing a more complete theory determining the value of the cosmological constant.

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@article{arxiv.1808.02728,
  title  = {A small non-vanishing cosmological constant from the Krein-Gupta-Bleuler vacuum},
  author = {Hamed Pejhan and Kazuharu Bamba and Mohammad Enayati and Surena Rahbardehghan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.02728},
  year   = {2018}
}

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