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We take another look at the equations behind the description of light bending in a Universe with a cosmological constant. We show that even within the impact parameter entering into the photon's differential equation, and which is defined…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-17 Fayçal Hammad

In this paper we present a statistical description of the cosmological constant in terms of massless bosons (gravitons). To this purpose, we use our recent results implying a non vanishing temperature ${T_{\Lambda}}$ for the cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-30 Stefano Viaggiu

It is traced out a parallel between the cosmological constant problem and the polymer physics. The time evolution of the universe world line is compared with the growing of a polymer chain. An equivalent Flory free energy and a modification…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-31 Paulo Roberto Silva

Under the assumption that the cosmological constant vanishes in the true ground state with lowest possible energy density, we argue that the observed small but finite vacuum-like energy density can be explained if we consider a theory with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Most of the calculations done to obtain the value of the cosmological constant use methods of quantum gravity, a theory that has not been established as yet, and a variety of results are usually obtained. The numerical value of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Moshe Carmeli

In the saddle point approximation, the Euclidean path integral for quantum gravity closely resembles a thermodynamic partition function, with the cosmological constant $\Lambda$ playing the role of temperature and the ``density of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-28 Steven Carlip

The cosmological constant term can be seen as a constant potential for a (scalar) field. In this viewpoint, at late times, the field is stopped rolling and behaves as a cosmological constant ($w=-1$). While at the early universe, its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Nima Khosravi

We propose an alternate cosmological model in which our observable universe is an island in a cosmological constant sea. Initially the universe is filled with cosmological constant of the currently observed value but is otherwise empty. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sourish Dutta , Tanmay Vachaspati

We have studied the closed universe model with the variable cosmological term, which is presented as a sum of two terms: Lambda=Lambda_0 -k R. First term Lambda_0 is a constant and it is describing a sum of quantum field's zero…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. I. Fomin , P. A. Nakaznoy , S. I. Vilchinskyi

In this work, we study the cosmological constant problem and Hubble tension in the void-dominated cosmology scenario \cite{Yusofi:2022hgg}. For this goal, we will first consider the cosmic voids in the cosmic web as interconnected ideal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-26 E. Yusofi , M. A. Ramzanpour

With no free parameter (except the string scale $M_S$), dynamical flux compactification in Type IIB string theory determines both the cosmological constant (vacuum energy density) $\Lambda$ and the Planck mass $M_P$ in terms of $M_S$, thus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-19 S. -H. Henry Tye

Astronomical observations have shown that the expansion of the universe is at present accelerating, in a way consistent with the presence of a positive cosmological constant. This is a major puzzle, because we do not understand: why the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jordi Miralda-Escude

Thermodynamical Behaviour of Inhomogeneous Universe with Varying $ \Lambda $ in Presence of Electromagnetic Field is obtained. $ F_{12} $ is the non-vanishing component of electromagnetic field tensor. To get a deterministic solution, it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-22 Anil Kumar Yadav

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

We obtain a one parameter class of stationary rotating string cosmological models of which the well-known G$\ddot o $del Universe is a particular case. By suitably choosing the free parameter function, it is always possible to satisfy the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 L. K. Patel , Naresh Dadhich

We review various aspects of de Sitter spacetime in string theory: its status as an effective field theory spacetime solution, its relation to the vacuum energy problem in string theory, its (global) holographic definition in terms of two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-30 Per Berglund , Tristan Hübsch , Djordje Minic

I argue that a solution to the cosmological constant problem is to assume that the expectation value of the quantum vacuum stress-energy tensor is proportional to the metric tensor with a negative energy density and positive pressure. This…

General Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Emilio Santos

We make the cosmological constant, {\Lambda}, into a field and restrict the variations of the action with respect to it by causality. This creates an additional Einstein constraint equation. It restricts the solutions of the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 John D. Barrow , Douglas J. Shaw

We present a model that naturally tunes a large positive cosmological constant to a small cosmological constant. A slowly rolling scalar field decreases the cosmological constant to a small negative value, causing the universe to contract,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-07 Peter W. Graham , David E. Kaplan , Surjeet Rajendran

The cosmological constant problem is a fundamental issue that has puzzled researchers in the fields of theoretical physics and cosmology for a long time. It arises from the discrepancy between the observed value of the cosmological constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-10 Alexander I Nesterov