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2015
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Report No.: DESY-15-119; ZMP-HH-15-20; arXiv:1507.04158
Abstract: In a series of recent papers Kaloper and Padilla proposed a mechanism to sequester standard model vacuum contributions to the cosmological constant. We study the consequences of embedding their proposal into a fully local quantum theory. In the original work, the bare cosmological constant $\Lambda$ and a scaling parameter $\lambda$ are introduced as global fields. We find that in the local case the resulting Lagrangian is that of a spontaneously broken conformal field theory where $\lambda$ plays the role of the dilaton. A vanishing or a small cosmological constant is thus a consequence of the underlying conformal field theory structure.
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Vacuum energy sequestering and conformal symmetry
Journal of cosmology and astroparticle physics 2016(05), 002 (2016) [10.1088/1475-7516/2016/05/002]
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