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According to general relativity, the present analysis shows on geometrical grounds that the cosmological constant problem is an artifact due to the unfounded link of this fundamental constant to vacuum energy density of quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Roland Triay

In this essay I point out that, in the context of semi-classical gravity, the equivalence principle can mitigate the cosmological constant problem. On a Minkowski space-time background with the usual $\mathbb{R}^4$ topology, the vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-18 Yonadav Barry Ginat

Quantum field theory predicts that vacuum energy (or what is the same, cosmological constant) should be 50-100 orders of magnitude larger than the existing astronomical limit. A very brief review of possible solutions of this problem is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. D. Dolgov

The cosmological constant problem is the principal obstacle in the attempt to interpret dark energy as the quantum vacuum energy. We suggest that the obstacle can be removed, i.e. that the cosmological constant problem can be resolved by…

General Physics · Physics 2012-01-24 Dragan Slavkov Hajdukovic

It is shown that the cosmological relativity theory prdicts the value Lambda = 1.934 x 10^-35 s^-2 for the cosmological constant. This value of Lambda is in exellent agreement with the measurements recently obtained by the High-Z Supernova…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Moshe Carmeli , Tanya Kuzmenko

The observed small value of cosmological constant can be naturally related with the scale of breaking down supersymmetry in agreement with other evaluations in particle physics.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-28 V. V. Kiselev , S. A. Timofeev

The standard model of elementary particle physics and the theory of general relativity can be extended by the introduction of a vacuum variable which is responsible for the near vanishing of the present cosmological constant (vacuum energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 F. R. Klinkhamer , G. E. Volovik

In this short note we comment on the relation between the cosmological and the Kaluza-Klein mass scale in the dark dimension scenario, also in view of some recent claims that would raise some doubts about the validity of this scenario. Here…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-16 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Ignatios Antoniadis , Dieter Lust , Severin Lüst

The cosmological constant is an unexplained until now phenomena of nature that requires an explanation through string effects. The apparent discrepancy between theory and experiment is enourmous and has already been explained several times…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gordon Chalmers

This study explores the cosmological constant problem and modified uncertainty principle within a unified framework inspired by a void-dominated scenario. In a recent paper~\cite{Yusofi:2022hgg}, voids were modeled as spherical bubbles of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-14 S. Ahmadi , E. Yusofi , M. A. Ramzanpour

An effective local quantum field theory with UV and IR cutoffs correlated in accordance with holographic entropy bounds is capable of rendering the cosmological constant (CC) stable against quantum corrections. By setting an IR cutoff to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Horvat

In this paper we provide both a diagnosis and resolution of the cosmological constant problem, one in which a large (as opposed to a small) cosmological constant $\Lambda$ can be made compatible with observation. We trace the origin of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Philip D. Mannheim

A cosmological scenario is proposed, which simultaneously solves the mass hierarchy and the small dark energy problem. In the present scenario an effective gravity mass scale (inverse of the Newton's constant) increases during the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Yoshimura

The present discussion contribution is some remarks concerning and review of the proposal by one of us (C. Balazs) to explain the cosmological constant by a/the principle of entropy. Used without further comment this principle of entropy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-26 H. B. Nielsen , C. Balazs

Two sides of cosmological constant problem are discussed: a mysterious compensation of all contributions to vacuum energy with the accuracy of 100-50 orders of magnitude and a surprising equality of a constant vacuum energy density to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. D. Dolgov

In this paper we discuss a model in which the energy density, corresponding to the effective cosmological constant, after the $SU(2)\times U(1)$ symmetry breaking appears to be of the desired order of $10^{-48}\div 10^{-47} GeV^{4}$. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-12-02 Mikhail N. Smolyakov

The observed cosmological constant may originate as the minimum value $U_{min}$ of a scalar field potential, where the scalar field is frozen due to a large mass. If this vacuum is metastable, it may decay to a true vacuum either at present…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-27 Dimitrios Efstratiou , Leandros Perivolaropoulos

We have shown that the varying physical constant model is consistent with the recently published variational approach wherein Einstein equations are modified to include the variation of the speed of light c, gravitational constant G and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-21 Rajendra P. Gupta

Following a conjecture of Feynman, we explore the possibility that only those energy forms that are associated with (massive or massless) particles couple to the gravitational field, but not others. We propose an experiment to deflect…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Murat Özer

Scenarios of supersymmetry breaking at various scales from TeV to GUT to the string are generated. A previous analysis generated the value of the experimentally measured cosmological constant from supersymmetry breaking at the TeV scale.…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gordon Chalmers