Manifestly Local Theory of Vacuum Energy Sequestering

Kaloper, Nemanja; Padilla, Antonio; Stefanyszyn, David; Zahariade, George

Abstract

© 2016 American Physical Society. We present a manifestly local, diffeomorphism invariant, and locally Poincaré invariant formulation of vacuum energy sequestering. In this theory, quantum vacuum energy generated by matter loops is canceled by auxiliary fields. The auxiliary fields decouple from gravity almost completely. Their only residual effect is an a priori arbitrary, finite contribution to the curvature of the background geometry, which is radiatively stable. Its value is to be determined by a measurement, like the finite part of any radiatively stable UV-sensitive quantity in quantum field theory.

Citation

Kaloper, N., Padilla, A., Stefanyszyn, D., & Zahariade, G. (2016). Manifestly Local Theory of Vacuum Energy Sequestering. Physical Review Letters, 116(5), Article 051302. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.051302

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 17, 2015
• Publication Date: Feb 5, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jul 25, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 25, 2016
• Journal: Physical Review Letters
• Print ISSN: 0031-9007
• Electronic ISSN: 1079-7114
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 116
• Issue: 5
• Article Number: 051302
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.051302
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/776963
• Publisher URL: http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.051302
• Contract Date: Jul 25, 2016