A New Interpretation of Einstein's Cosmological Constant

Details A New Interpretation of Einstein's Cosmological Constant A New Interpretation of Einstein's Cosmological Constant

2011-10-25

arxiv.org/abs/1110.6095v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

59 pages, 2 figures, 1 table

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A new approach to the cosmological constant problem is proposed by modifying Einstein's theory of general relativity, using instead a scalar-tensor theory of gravitation. This theory of gravity crucially incorporates the concept of quantum symmetry breaking. The role of the cosmological constant $\lambda$ as a graviton mass in the weak-field limit is necessarily utilized. Because $\lambda$ takes on two values as a broken symmetry, so does the graviton mass -- one of which cannot be zero. Gravity now exhibits both long- and short-range forces, by introducing hadron bags into strong interaction physics using a nonlinear, self-interacting scalar $\sigma$-field coupled to the gravitational Lagrangian.

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