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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

Even if nothing but a light Higgs is observed at the LHC, suggesting that the Standard Model is unmodified up to scales far above the weak scale, Higgs physics can yield surprises of fundamental significance for cosmology. As has long been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-22 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Sergei Dubovsky , Leonardo Senatore , Giovanni Villadoro

It has been built a strict mathematical model of the thermodynamic equilibrium's establishment in the originally nonequilibrium cosmological ultrarelativistic plasma for the arbitrary accelerated Universe under the assumption that scaling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Yurii Ignatyev

In the more recent literature on cosmological evolutions of the universe the cosmic vacuum energy has become a non-renouncable ingredient. The cosmological constant $\Lambda$, first invented by Einstein, but later also rejected by him,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-28 H. J. Fahr , M. Heyl

Recently, the observed equation of state for dark energy appears to favor values below $-1$. The tendency implies that the nature of dark energy may be quite different from that of the cosmological constant. In view of the adjustment on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Yu-Ping Teng , Wolung Lee , Kin-Wang Ng

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

In a recent trilogy we proposed a Statistical Theory of General Relativity spacetime. Here we apply our new theory to determine the (energy) ``density'' and (virial) ``temperature'' dependence of the structure of the spacetime quantum…

General Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Riccardo Fantoni

We propose a technically natural scenario whereby an initially large cosmological constant (c.c.) is relaxed down to the observed value due to the dynamics of a scalar evolving on a very shallow potential. The model crucially relies on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-04 Lasma Alberte , Paolo Creminelli , Andrei Khmelnitsky , David Pirtskhalava , Enrico Trincherini

Condensed matter is thermodynamically unstable in a vacuum. That is what thermodynamics tells us through the relation showing that condensed matter at temperatures above absolute zero always has non-zero vapour pressure. This instability…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-06-02 Julyan H. E. Cartwright

By studying the present cosmological data, particularly on CMB, SNeIA and LSS, we find that the future fate of the universe, for simple linear models of the dark energy equation-of-state, can vary between the extremes of (I) a divergence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paul H. Frampton

The evolution of a vacuum component of the Universe is investigated in the quantum as well as the classical regimes. Probably our Universe has arisen as a vacuum fluctuation and very probably that it has had a high symmetry for Planckian…

General Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 Vladimir Burdyuzha

The long-awaited Higgs particle H around 125 GeV has been observed at the LHC. Interpreting it as the standard model Higgs boson and if there is no new physics between electroweak and Planck scale, we then don't have a stable vacuum. Here,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Yong Tang

We investigate the effect of vacuum corrections, due to the trace anomaly and Casimir effect, on the stability of an oscillating universe with respect to decay by tunneling to the singularity. We find that these corrections do not generally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-15 Audrey T. Mithani , Alexander Vilenkin

It is known that the present electroweak vacuum is likely to be metastable and it may lead to a serious instability during/after inflation. We propose a simple solution to the problem of vacuum instability during/after inflation. If there…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-07 Yohei Ema , Kyohei Mukaida , Kazunori Nakayama

KKLT give a mechanism to generate de Sitter vacua in string theory. And recently, the scenario, {\em landscape}, is suggested to explain the problem of the cosmological constant. In this scenario, the cosmological constant is a de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-06 C. Y. Sun , D. H. Zhang

It is extraordinary that a number of observations indicate that we live in a spatially flat, low matter density Universe, which is currently undergoing a period of accelerating expansion. The effort to explain this current state has focused…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-18 R. R. Caldwell

Recently, the notion that the number of vacua is enormous has received increased attentions, which may be regarded as a possible anthropical explanation to incredible small cosmological constant. Further, a dynamical mechanisms to implement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Yun-Song Piao

Our current measurements of the Standard Model parameters imply that the Higgs field resides in a metastable electroweak vacuum, where the vacuum can decay to a lower ground state, with cataclysmic repercussions for our Universe. According…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Andreas Mantziris

We study the stability of the Einstein static universe in the Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz (HL) gravity and a generalized version of it formulated by Sotiriou, Visser and Weifurtner. We find that, for the HL cosmology, there exists a stable Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

We discuss the possibility that the vacuum is dynamically determined in the history of the universe. The point is that some of the bubbles with a certain vacuum shrink by the evolution of the universe via gravity and may become black holes.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nobuhiro Maekawa