Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2009-10-09
PoS CLAQG08:012,2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Some misprints corrected. LaTeX 9 pages. Contribution given for the Workshop on Continuum and Lattice Approaches to Quantum Gr
Scientific paper
We discuss how to extract information about the cosmological constant from the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, considered as an eigenvalue of a Sturm-Liouville problem. The equation is approximated to one loop with the help of a variational approach with Gaussian trial wave functionals. A canonical decomposition of modes is used to separate transverse-traceless tensors (graviton) from ghosts and scalar. We show that no ghosts appear in the final evaluation of the cosmological constant. A zeta function regularization is used to handle with divergences. A renormalization procedure is introduced to remove the infinities together with a renormalization group equation. A brief discussion on the extension to a $f(R)$ theory is considered.
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