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Clock Fields and Logarithmic Decay of Dark Energy

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-01-24 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We investigate the physical measurability of the infrared instability of a de Sitter phase in the formalism recently proposed by Kitamoto et al.. We find that the logarithmic decay of the effective cosmological constant is only measurable if an additional clock field is introduced.

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@article{arxiv.2201.08824,
  title  = {Clock Fields and Logarithmic Decay of Dark Energy},
  author = {Robert Brandenberger and Vincent Comeau and Leonardo Fossati and Lavinia Heisenberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.08824},
  year   = {2022}
}

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9 pages

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