Dynamical Adjustment of the Cosmological Constant

Mar 28, 1988
6 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 211 (1988) 49-54
  • Published: Aug 25, 1988
Report number:
  • Print-88-0235 (BARTOL),
  • BA-88-18

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We examine a recent proposal by Peccei, Sola and Wetterich for the dynamical cancellation of the cosmological constant and explicitly demonstrate that their mechanism is plagued by a fine-tuning problem, order-by-order in perturbation theory. Our analysis, however, suggests a modification of their scheme which seems to have a good chance of solving the cosmological constant problem. It involves the existence of more than one dilaton. We also discuss the relevance to “fifth” forces.
  • COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT
  • POSTULATED PARTICLE: DILATON
  • POSTULATED PARTICLE: COSMON
  • FIELD THEORY: SPACE-TIME
  • TENSOR: ENERGY-MOMENTUM
  • FIELD THEORY: SCALAR
  • APPROXIMATION: EFFECTIVE POTENTIAL
  • GRAVITATION: CORRECTION
  • MODEL: NEW INTERACTION
  • NEW INTERACTION: MODEL