Dynamical measure and field theory models free of the cosmological constant problem

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1999-05-10

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9905029v1

Phys.Rev.D60:065004,1999

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Extended version of the contribution to the fourth Alexander Friedmann International Seminar on Gravitation and Cosmology; acc

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.60.065004

Summary of abstract Field theory models including gauge theories with SSB are presented where the energy density of the true vacuum state (TVS) is zero without fine tuning. The above models are constructed in the gravitational theory where a measure of integration \Phi in the action is not necessarily \sqrt{-g} but it is determined dynamically through additional degrees of freedom. The ratio \Phi/\sqrt{-g} is a scalar field which can be solved in terms of the matter degrees of freedom due to the existence of a constraint. We study a few explicit field theory models where it is possible to combine the solution of the cosmological constant problem with: 1) possibility for inflationary scenario for the early universe; 2) spontaneously broken gauge unified theories (including fermions). The models are free from the well known problem of the usual scalar-tensor theories in what is concerned with the classical GR tests. The only difference of the field equations in the Einstein frame from the canonical equations of the selfconsistent system of Einstein's gravity and matter fields, is the appearance of the effective scalar field potential which vanishes in TVS without fine tuning.

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