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Cosmological constant problem and long-distance modifications of Einstein theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We construct the covariant nonlocal action for recently suggested long-distance modifications of gravity theory motivated by the cosmological constant and cosmological acceleration problems. This construction is based on the special nonlocal form of the Einstein-Hilbert action explicitly revealing the fact that this action within the covariant curvature expansion begins with curvature-squared terms.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0409144,
  title  = {Cosmological constant problem and long-distance modifications of Einstein theory},
  author = {A. O. Barvinsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0409144},
  year   = {2007}
}

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LaTeX, 10 p., talk given at QUARKS-2004, Pushkinskie Gory, Russia, May 2004