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Quantum Gravity and the Cosmological Constant Problem

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A finite and unitary nonlocal formulation of quantum gravity is applied to the cosmological constant problem. The entire functions in momentum space at the graviton-standard model particle loop vertices generate an exponential suppression of the vacuum density and the cosmological constant to produce agreement with their observational bounds.

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Acknowledgments

The John Templeton Foundation is thanked for its generous support of this research. The research was also supported by the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Research at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is supported by the Government of Canada through industry Canada and by the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research and Innovation (MRI). I thank Martin Green and Viktor Toth for helpful discussions.

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  1. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON, N2L 2Y5, Canada

    John W. Moffat

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 2Y5, Canada

    John W. Moffat

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  1. Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Piero Nicolini

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA

    Matthias Kaminski

  3. Department of Physics, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Jonas Mureika

  4. Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Marcus Bleicher

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Moffat, J.W. (2016). Quantum Gravity and the Cosmological Constant Problem. In: Nicolini, P., Kaminski, M., Mureika, J., Bleicher, M. (eds) 1st Karl Schwarzschild Meeting on Gravitational Physics. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 170. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20046-0_36

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