Hiding the Cosmological Constant

Carlip, Steven

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.123.131302

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“…With such a review the experimental efforts dedicated to CRE could be prioritized accordingly so that appropriate detection and monitoring algorithms could be developed, including the alerting mechanisms on a sub-threshold level to be analyzed in accordance with the multi-messenger astrophysics strategies. The latter direction gives promising perspectives for new advances in astrophysics, reflected also in the new attention of theorists, also those addressing the questions related to space time structure (see e.g., [146][147][148]) and private interest in discussions (P. Homola's private communication with S. Carlip, Y. J. Ng, and Q. Wang.…”

Section: Uhecr As the Spacetime Structure Probe?mentioning

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Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory

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The Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO) is a newly formed, global collaboration dedicated to observing and studying cosmic rays (CR) and cosmic-ray ensembles (CRE): groups of at least two CR with a common primary interaction vertex or the same parent particle. The CREDO program embraces testing known CR and CRE scenarios, and preparing to observe unexpected physics, it is also suitable for multi-messenger and multi-mission applications. Perfectly matched to CREDO capabilities, CRE could be formed both within classical models (e.g., as products of photon–photon interactions), and exotic scenarios (e.g., as results of decay of Super-Heavy Dark Matter particles). Their fronts might be significantly extended in space and time, and they might include cosmic rays of energies spanning the whole cosmic-ray energy spectrum, with a footprint composed of at least two extensive air showers with correlated arrival directions and arrival times. As the CRE are predominantly expected to be spread over large areas and, due to the expected wide energy range of the contributing particles, such a CRE detection might only be feasible when using all available cosmic-ray infrastructure collectively, i.e., as a globally extended network of detectors. Thus, with this review article, the CREDO Collaboration invites the astroparticle physics community to actively join or to contribute to the research dedicated to CRE and, in particular, to pool together cosmic-ray data to support specific CRE detection strategies.

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Section: Uhecr As the Spacetime Structure Probe?mentioning

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“…This explains why to date we have seen no manifestation of the huge values that k ∝ k 4 can reach and that play a central role in the traditional discussions of the cosmological constant. [see [26] for further details, and [62] for a purely classical discussion of "hiding" the cosmological constant at small distances].…”

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Why the Cosmological Constant Seems to Hardly Care About Quantum Vacuum Fluctuations: Surprises From Background Independent Coarse Graining

Pagani

Reuter

2020

Front. Phys.

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Background Independence is a sine qua non for every satisfactory theory of Quantum Gravity. If one tries to establish a corresponding notion of Wilsonian renormalization, or coarse graining, it presents a major conceptual and technical difficulty usually. In this paper, we adopt the approach of the gravitational Effective Average Action and demonstrate that, generically, coarse graining in Quantum Gravity and in standard field theories on a non-dynamical spacetime are profoundly different. By means of a concrete example, which, in connection with the cosmological constant problem, is also interesting in its own right, we show that the surprising and sometimes counterintuitive implications of Background Independent coarse graining are neither restricted to high energies nor to strongly non-perturbative regimes. In fact, while our approach has been employed in most studies of Asymptotic Safety, this particular ultraviolet behavior plays no essential role in the present context.

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“…Actually, there have been many different attempts to find a solution to this very hard problem. I just quote here, to finish, the most recent, brand new approaches, of the last couple of years, at solving the cc problem, by Unruh, Leonhardt, Carlip, Santos, and others [177][178][179][180][181].…”

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Zeta Functions and the Cosmos—A Basic Brief Review

Elizalde

2020

Universe

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This is a very basic and pedagogical review of the concepts of zeta function and of the associated zeta regularization method, starting from the notions of harmonic series and of divergent sums in general. By way of very simple examples, it is shown how these powerful methods are used for the regularization of physical quantities, such as quantum vacuum fluctuations in various contexts. In special, in Casimir effect setups, with a note on the dynamical Casimir effect, and mainly concerning its application in quantum theories in curved spaces, subsequently used in gravity theories and cosmology. The second part of this work starts with an essential introduction to large scale cosmology, in search of the observational foundations of the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) model, and the cosmological constant issue, with the very hard problems associated with it. In short, a concise summary of all these interrelated subjects and applications, involving zeta functions and the cosmos, and an updated list of the pioneering and more influential works (according to Google Scholar citation counts) published on all these matters to date, are provided.

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Hiding the Cosmological Constant

Cited by 67 publications

References 54 publications

Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory

Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory

Why the Cosmological Constant Seems to Hardly Care About Quantum Vacuum Fluctuations: Surprises From Background Independent Coarse Graining

Zeta Functions and the Cosmos—A Basic Brief Review

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