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The Cosmological constant problem: A User's guide

Orfeu Bertolami
(
- Lisbon, IST
)

Mar, 2009

9 pages

Published in:

Int.J.Mod.Phys.D 18 (2009) 2303-2310

e-Print:

0905.3110 [gr-qc]

DOI:

10.1142/S0218271809015862

Report number:

DF-IST-4-2009

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Abstract: (arXiv)

We discuss the validity of general relativity at low-energy and relate the threshold below which the theory breaks down with the observed value of the cosmological constant. This suggests the existence of a mass scale of

{\cal O}(10^{-3}) eV

and a putative violation of the equivalence principle at about

10^{-14}

level.

Note:

Dedicated to the memory of Maria da Conceicao Bento

equivalence principle: violation
cosmological constant
general relativity
mass: scale
vacuum state: energy
field theory: scalar
energy: density
Einstein equation

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