Is the cosmological "constant" a nonlocal quantum residue of discreteness of the causal set type?
| dc.creator | Sorkin, Rafael D. | |
| dc.date | 2007-10-09 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T11:19:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T11:19:52Z | |
| dc.description | The evidence for an accelerating Hubble expansion appears to have confirmed the heuristic prediction, from causal set theory, of a fluctuating and ``ever-present'' cosmological term in the Einstein equations. A more concrete phenomenological model incorporating this prediction has been devised and tested, but it remains incomplete. I will review these developments and also mention a possible consequence for the dimensionality of spacetime. | |
| dc.description | plainTeX, 13 pages. To appear in the proceedings of the PASCOS-07 Conference, held July, 2007, London, England. Most current version is available at http://www.physics.syr.edu/~sorkin/some.papers/ (or wherever my home-page may be) | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.1675 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.1675 | |
| dc.identifier | AIPConf.Proc.957:142-153,2007 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1063/1.2823750 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/193836 | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Is the cosmological "constant" a nonlocal quantum residue of discreteness of the causal set type? | |
| dc.type | text |