Screening of cosmological constant in non-local gravity

Details Screening of cosmological constant in non-local gravity Screening of cosmological constant in non-local gravity

2010-10-26

arxiv.org/abs/1010.5375v1

Phys.Lett.B696:278-282,2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

LaTeX 7 pages, no figure

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physletb.2010.12.035

We discuss a possible mechanism to screen a cosmological constant in non-local gravity. We find that in a simple model of of non-local gravity with the Lagrangian of the form, $R+f(\Box^{-1}R)-2\Lambda$ where $f(X)$ is a quadratic function of $X$, there is a flat spacetime solution despite the presence of the cosmological constant $\Lambda$. Unfortunately, however, we also find that this solution contains a ghost in general. Then we discuss the condition to avoid a ghost and find that one can avoid it only for a finite range of `time'. Nevertheless our result suggests the possibility of solving the cosmological constant problem in the context of non-local gravity.

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