Vacuum energy sequestering and graviton loops

Kaloper, Nemanja; Padilla, Antonio

Abstract

We recently formulated a local mechanism of vacuum energy sequester. This mechanism automatically removes all matter loop contributions to vacuum energy from the stress energy tensor which sources the curvature. Here we adapt the local vacuum energy sequestering mechanism to also cancel all the vacuum energy loops involving virtual gravitons, in addition to the vacuum energy generated by matter fields alone.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 13, 2017
• Publication Date: Feb 9, 2017
• Deposit Date: Mar 10, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 10, 2017
• Journal: Physical Review Letters
• Print ISSN: 0031-9007
• Electronic ISSN: 1079-7114
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 118
• Issue: 6
• Article Number: 061303
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.061303
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/846673
• Publisher URL: http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.061303
• Additional Information: ©2017 American Physical Society.