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Spacetime Fluctuations and the Cosmological Constant Problem

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v2 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Spacetime geometry is treated as a fluctuating, stochastic quantum system allowing an effective quantum gravity solution to the cosmological constant problem. A Focker-Planck equation for the probability density of spacetime metric fluctuations is solved for an FRW universe and the most probable value for the metric scale factor R is for a very small cosmological constant.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0101252,
  title  = {Spacetime Fluctuations and the Cosmological Constant Problem},
  author = {J. W. Moffat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0101252},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Latex file. 11 pages. 1 figure