Inflation and the cosmological constant
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-05-28 v6 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
A particular compensation-type solution of the main cosmological constant problem has been proposed recently, with two massless vector fields dynamically canceling an arbitrary cosmological constant \Lambda. The naive expectation is that such a compensation mechanism does not allow for the existence of an inflationary phase in the very early Universe. However, it is shown that certain initial boundary conditions on the vector fields can in fact give rise to an inflationary phase.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1107.4063,
title = {Inflation and the cosmological constant},
author = {F. R. Klinkhamer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.4063},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
8 pages; v6: published version