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Mass of the dilaton and the cosmological constant

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v3

Abstract

One might raise a question if the gravitational scalar field (dilaton) mediates a finite-range force between local objects still behaving globally as being massless to implement the scenario of a decaying cosmological constant. We offer a non-negative reply by a detailed analysis of the field-theoretical quantization procedure in relation to the observationally required suppression of the vacuum-energy.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0212030,
  title  = {Mass of the dilaton and the cosmological constant},
  author = {Yasunori Fujii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0212030},
  year   = {2008}
}

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9 pages LaTeX 1 figure; an added reference and partial revisions