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Quintessential Vanishing of the Cosmological Constant

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We consider an effective field theory description of gravity coupled to a scalar field with volume-preserving diffeomorphism and Weyl invariances. The smallness of the cosmological constant is achieved when the potential of the scalar is extremely flat. This implies a possible relationship between the smallness and the quintessential sector of the cosmological constant.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0005182,
  title  = {Quintessential Vanishing of the Cosmological Constant},
  author = {K. -I. Izawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0005182},
  year   = {2007}
}

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6 pages, latex