Sequestration of Vacuum Energy and the End of the Universe
Sep 24, 2014- Phys.Rev.Lett. 114 (2015) 10, 101302
- Published: Mar 10, 2015
- 1409.7073 [hep-th]
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Recently, we proposed a mechanism for sequestering the standard model vacuum energy that predicts that the Universe will collapse. Here we present a simple mechanism for bringing about this collapse, employing a scalar field whose potential is linear and becomes negative, providing the negative energy density required to end the expansion. The slope of the potential is chosen to allow for the expansion to last until the current Hubble time, about
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- expansion: acceleration
- potential: linear
- vacuum state: energy
- potential: slope
- energy: negative
- collapse
- boundary condition
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