Accelerating universe and the scalar-tensor theory
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Accelerating universe and the scalar-tensor theory
zbMATH Open document ID: 1297.83047
author: Yasunori Fujii
published in: Entropy
publication date: 2014-09-08T00:00:00Z
review text: Summary: To understand the accelerating universe discovered observationally in 1998, we develop the scalar-tensor theory of gravitation originally due to Jordan, extended only minimally. The unique role of the conformal transformation and frames is discussed particularly from a physical point of view. We show the theory to provide us with a simple and natural way of understanding the core of the measurements, \(\Lambda_{\mathrm{obs}}\sim t_0^{-2}\) for the observed values of the cosmological constant and today's age of the universe both expressed in the Planckian units. According to this scenario of a decaying cosmological constant, \(\Lambda_{\mathrm{obs}}\) is this small only because we are old, not because we fine-tune the parameters. It also follows that the scalar field is simply the pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson of broken global scale invariance, based on the way astronomers and astrophysicists measure the expansion of the universe in reference to the microscopic length units. A rather phenomenological trapping mechanism is assumed for the scalar field around the epoch of mini-inflation as observed, still maintaining the unmistakable behavior of the scenario stated above. Experimental searches for the scalar field, as light as \(\sim 10^{-9}\) eV, as part of the dark energy, are also discussed.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83F05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 85A40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83D05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 85A30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53Z05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81V22
zbMATH DE Number: 6341049
zbMATH Keywords: accelerating universe
zbMATH Keywords: scalar-tensor theory
zbMATH Keywords: Nambu-Goldstone boson
zbMATH Keywords: spontaneous breaking
zbMATH Keywords: Dilaton
zbMATH Keywords: conformal transformation
zbMATH Keywords: mini-inflation
zbMATH Keywords: dark energy
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/e14101997
OpenAlex ID: W2027086227
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DOI: 10.3390/E14101997
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6341049