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The cosmological constant $\Lambda$ is a free parameter in Einstein's equations of gravity. We propose to fix its value with a boundary condition: test particles should be free when outside causal contact, e.g. at infinity. Under this…

General Physics · Physics 2019-05-24 Enrique Gaztanaga

The possibility of extending the quantum mechanical superposition principle to free parameters such as the cosmological constant appearing in the Lagrangian of physical theories is examined. If the cosmological constant is subject to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-15 Josily Cyriac

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

We discuss the notion that quantum fields may induce an effective time-dependent cosmological constant which decays from a large initial value. It is shown that such cosmological models are viable in a non-de Sitter spacetime.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Murat Özer , M. O. Taha

We propose a new approach to understand hierarchy problem for cosmological constant in terms of considering noncommutative nature of space-time. We calculate that vacuum energy density of the noncommutative quantum field theories in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao-Jun Wang

It is observed that one of Einstein-Friedmann's equations has formally the aspect of a Sturm-Liouville problem, and that the cosmological constant, $\Lambda$, plays thereby the role of spectral parameter (what hints to its connection with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-19 Artyom V. Yurov , Artyom V. Astashenok , E. Elizalde

One hope to solve the cosmological constant problem is to identify a symmetry principle, based on which the cosmological constant can be reduced either to zero, or to a tiny value. Here, we note that requiring that the vacuum state is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-01 Jurjen F. Koksma , Tomislav Prokopec

The mechanism for the relaxation of the cosmological constant is studied and elaborated. In the model used for the analysis of the relaxation mechanism the universe contains two components: a cosmological constant of an arbitrary size and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-22 Hrvoje Stefancic

We consider further consequences of recently [1] revealed role of cosmological constant \Lambda as of a physical constant, along with the gravitational one to define the gravity i.e. the General Relativity and its low-energy limit. We now…

General Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 V. G. Gurzadyan , A. Stepanian

Based on a thoeretical model in which scalar fields play crucial roles, we propose a mechanism to better understand a cosmological constant expected to be small (nearly comparable with the critical density) but nonzero as suggested strongly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Yasunori Fujii

The incorporation of a small cosmological constant within radiatively-broken scale-invariant models is discussed. We show that phenomenologically consistent scale-invariant models can be constructed which allow a small positive cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Robert Foot , Archil Kobakhidze , Raymond R. Volkas

It was recently suggested that the cosmological constant problem as viewed in a non-perturbative framework is intimately connected to the choice of time and a physical Hamiltonian. We develop this idea further by calculating the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-05 Syed Moeez Hassan

It is well-known that in unimodular gravity the cosmological constant is not sourced by a constant energy density, but rather appears as some sort of integration constant. In this work we try to flesh this out by studying in some detail a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-11 Enrique Álvarez , Jesús Anero , Irene Sánchez-Ruiz

A cosmological constant, Lambda, is the most natural candidate to explain the origin of the dark energy (DE) component in the Universe. However, due to experimental evidence that the equation of state (EOS) of the DE could be evolving with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Joan Sola , Hrvoje Stefancic

We advance the viewpoint that only relevant modes of the vacuum fluctuations, namely, with wavelengths conditioned by the size, homogeneity, geometry and topology of the Universe, do contribute into the cosmological constant. A formula is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 V. G. Gurzadyan , She-Sheng Xue

We study the static patch of de Sitter space in the presence of a timelike boundary. We impose that the conformal class of the induced metric and the trace of the extrinsic curvature, $K$, are fixed at the boundary. We present the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-29 Dionysios Anninos , Damián A. Galante , Chawakorn Maneerat

We show that the description of the space-time of general relativity as a diagonal four dimensional submanifold immersed in an eight dimensional hypercomplex manifold, in torsionless case, leads to a geometrical origin of the cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-31 Hemza Azri , A. Bounames

In this paper, time variable cosmological constant, dubbed {\it age cosmological constant}, is investigated motivated by the fact: any cosmological length scale and time scale can introduce a cosmological constant or vacuum energy density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-28 Lixin Xu , Jianbo Lu , Wenbo Li

We describe the dynamics of a cosmological term in the spherically symmetric case by an r-dependent second rank symmetric tensor \Lambda_{\mu\nu} invariant under boosts in the radial direction. The cosmological tensor \Lambda_{\mu\nu}…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Irina Dymnikova

We construct the cosmological model to explain the cosmological constant problem. We built the extension of the standard cosmological model $\Lambda$CDM by consideration of decaying vacuum energy represented by the running cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-08 Marek Szydlowski