The running gravitational couplings
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- 1 November 1998
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Vol. 15 (11) , 3449-3468
Abstract
We compute the running of the cosmological constant and Newton's constant taking into account the effect of quantum fields with any spin between 0 and 2. We find that Newton's constant does not vary appreciably but the cosmological constant can change by many orders of magnitude when one goes from cosmological scales to typical elementary particle scales. In the extreme infrared, zero modes drive the cosmological constant to zero.Keywords
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