2002/05/01 by Myron Bander, Bander, Myron
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0205006
5 pages REVTEX4
arxiv created 2002/05/01 · openalex publication_date 2002/05/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
By allowing for non zero vacuum expectation values for some of the fields that appear in the Hamiltonian constraint of canonical general relativity a time variable, with usual properties, can be identified; the constraint plays the role of the ordinary Hamiltonian. The energy eigenvalues contribute to the variation of the scale parameter similarly to the way matter density does. For a universe described by a superposition of eigenstates or by a thermodynamic ensemble the dominant contribution comes from energy, or equivalently effective matter density, of the same order as the vacuum energy (cosmological constant). This may explain the observed ``coincidence'' of these two values.