The conformal anomaly and dark energy : how the conformal anomaly can introduce an IR scale into the vacuum energy
We suggest that the solution to the cosmological vacuum energy puzzle may come from the infrared sector of the low energy effective quantum field theory of gravity, where the impact of the conformal anomaly is of the upmost importance. We proceed by introducing two auxiliary fields, which describe the...
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| Language: | English |
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University of British Columbia
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/33983 |