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arxiv: 1010.5375 · v1 · pith:C3MDB2FNnew · submitted 2010-10-26 · 🌀 gr-qc · astro-ph.CO· hep-th

Screening of cosmological constant in non-local gravity

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keywords constantcosmologicalgravitynon-localfindavoiddiscussghost
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We discuss a possible mechanism to screen a cosmological constant in non-local gravity. We find that in a simple model of of non-local gravity with the Lagrangian of the form, $R+f(\Box^{-1}R)-2\Lambda$ where $f(X)$ is a quadratic function of $X$, there is a flat spacetime solution despite the presence of the cosmological constant $\Lambda$. Unfortunately, however, we also find that this solution contains a ghost in general. Then we discuss the condition to avoid a ghost and find that one can avoid it only for a finite range of `time'. Nevertheless our result suggests the possibility of solving the cosmological constant problem in the context of non-local gravity.

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