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A perfect fluid, spatially flat cosmology in a $f(T)$ model, derived from a recently proposed general Born-Infeld type theory of gravity is studied. Four dimensional cosmological solutions are obtained assuming the equation of state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-04 Soumya Jana

We suggest an interpretation of Einstein Equations of General Relativity at large scales in which the Cosmological constant is exactly zero in the limit of zero spacetime variations of fundamental constants. We argue that in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-09 Denis Bashkirov

We argue that the main reason of crisis in quantum theory is that nature, which is fundamentally discrete and even finite, is described by classical mathematics involving the notions of infinitely small, continuity etc. Moreover, since…

General Physics · Physics 2021-01-06 Felix M. Lev

The Cosmological Constant problem can be solved once we require that the full standard Einstein Hilbert lagrangian, gravity plus matter, is multiplied by a total derivative. We analyze such a picture writing the total derivative as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-06 Denis Comelli

Cosmological constant problem (in its various versions) is arguably the deepest gap in our understanding of theoretical physics, the solution to which may very likely require revisiting the Einstein theory of gravity. In this letter, I…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-18 Niayesh Afshordi

Zero point fluctuations of quantum fields should generate a large cosmological constant energy density in any spacetime. How then can we have anything other than de Sitter space without fine tuning? Well tempering -- dynamical cancellation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 Stephen Appleby , Eric V. Linder

A key challenge for many quantum gravity approaches is to construct states that describe smooth geometries on large scales. Here we define a family of $(2+1)$-dimensional quantum gravity states which arise from curvature excitations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-27 Bianca Dittrich

We present a theory based upon the treatment of the gravitational field as a sea of gravity quanta, as defined elsewhere. The resultant model for the Universe is a static one, like Einstein first saw, with a new feature: a local shrinking…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Antonio Alfonso-Faus

We study gauge theories in the context of a gravitational theory without the cosmological constant problem (CCP). The theory is based on the requirement that the measure of integration in the action is not necessarily $\sqrt{-g}$ but it is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Guendelman , A. B. Kaganovich

We review a solution of the cosmological constant problem in a brane-world model with infinite-volume extra dimensions. The solution is based on a nonlinear generally covariant theory of a metastable graviton that leads to a large-distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Gia Dvali , Gregory Gabadadze , M. Shifman

We attempt to find new symmetries in the space-time structure, leading to a modified gravitation at large length scales, which provides the foundations of a quantum gravity at very low energies. This search begins by considering a unified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-09-13 Claudio Nassif

We consider two-dimensional quantum gravity endowed with a positive cosmological constant and coupled to a conformal field theory of large and positive central charge. We study cosmological properties at the classical and quantum level. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-05 Dionysios Anninos , Chiara Baracco , Beatrix Mühlmann

Whereas the total energy in zero-point fluctuations of the particle physics vacuum gives rise to the cosmological constant problem, differences in the vacuum give rise to real physical phenomena, such as the Casimir effect. Hence we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. R. Caldwell

We point out several subtleties arising in brane-world scenarios of cosmological constant cancellation. We show that solutions with curvature singularities are inconsistent, unless the contribution to the effective four-dimentional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Stefan Forste , Zygmunt Lalak , Stéphane Lavignac , Hans Peter Nilles

Recently, a new alternative vector theory of gravity has been proposed which assumes that universe has fixed background Euclidean geometry and gravity is a vector field that alters this geometry [Phys. Scr. 92, 125001 (2017)]. It has been…

General Physics · Physics 2019-05-28 Anatoly A. Svidzinsky

It is shown that Einstein field equations give two solutions for cosmology. The first one is the standard well known representative of the present status of cosmology. We identify it with the local point of view of a flat Universe with the…

General Physics · Physics 2008-01-04 Antonio Alfonso-Faus

Einstein gravity at $D\rightarrow 2$ limit can be obtained from the Kaluza-Klein procedure by taking the dimensions of the internal space to zero while keeping only the breathing mode. The resulting scalar-tensor theory can be further…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-29 Qi-Yuan Mao , H. Lu

This paper continues the development of a discrete space-time concept that is recently used in the explanation of the cosmological constant. Instead of order estimation, a more theoretical treatment of the theory is introduced. Based on the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. M. Mok

One way the ultraviolet problem may be solved is explicit physical regularization. In this scenario, QFT is only the long distance limit of some unknown non-Poincare-invariant microscopic theory. One can ask how complex and contrived such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ilja Schmelzer

This research is an extension of the author's article \cite{zar}, in which conformally invariant generalization of string theory was suggested to higher-dimensional objects. Special cases of the proposed theory are Einstein's theory of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-13 Farkhat Zaripov