English

{\Lambda} may not be vacuum energy, after all

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2014-04-03 v1

Abstract

We suggest the possibility that the mysterious dark energy component driving the acceleration of the Universe is the leading term, in the de Sitter temperature, of the free energy density of space-time seen as a quantum gravity coherent state of the gravitational field. The corresponding field theory classically has positive pressure, and can be considered as living on the Hubble horizon, or, alternatively, within the non compact part of the Robertson-Walker metric, both manifolds being characterized by the same scale and degrees of freedom. The equation of state is then recovered via the conformal anomaly. No such interpretation seems to be available for negative {\Lambda}.

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@article{arxiv.1404.0476,
  title  = {{\Lambda} may not be vacuum energy, after all},
  author = {Luciano Vanzo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.0476},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

5 pages, Essay written for the Gravity Research Foundation 2014 Awards for Essays on Gravitation

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