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Interpretation of the Cosmological Constant Problem within the Framework of Generalized Uncertainty Principle

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-05-20 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

We propose an improved exponential Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) by introducing a positive integer nn called the suppressing index. Due to the UV/IR mixing brought by the GUP, the states with momenta smaller than the critical momentum (P<PCritP < P_{\rm Crit}) are canceled by the states with momenta larger than the critical momentum (P>PCritP > P_{\rm Crit}) and thus have no contributions to the energy density of the vacuum. By considering the contributions just from the states with momenta larger than the critical momentum (P>PCritP > P_{\rm Crit}) and choosing a suitable suppressing index, n10123n \sim 10^{123}, we calculate the cosmological constant consistent with the experimentally observed value.

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@article{arxiv.1312.4118,
  title  = {Interpretation of the Cosmological Constant Problem within the Framework of Generalized Uncertainty Principle},
  author = {Yan-Gang Miao and Ying-Jie Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.4118},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

10 pages, no figures; v2: clarifications added; v3: 11 pages, title slightly changed, clarifications added, the final version to appear in IJMPD