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Copyright © 2015 Jung-Jeng Huang. Jung-Jeng Huang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The publication of this article was funded by SCOAP3 .

Abstract

In Schrödinger picture we study the possible effects of trans-Planckian physics on the quantum evolution of massive nonminimally coupled scalar field in de Sitter space. For the nonlinear Corley-Jacobson type dispersion relations with quartic or sextic correction, we obtain the time evolution of the vacuum state wave functional during slow-roll inflation and calculate explicitly the corresponding expectation value of vacuum energy density. We find that the vacuum energy density is finite. For the usual dispersion parameter choice, the vacuum energy density for quartic correction to the dispersion relation is larger than for sextic correction, while for some other parameter choices, the vacuum energy density for quartic correction is smaller than for sextic correction. We also use the backreaction to constrain the magnitude of parameters in nonlinear dispersion relation and show how the cosmological constant depends on the parameters and the energy scale during the inflation at the grand unification phase transition.

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Title
Evaluation of the Cosmological Constant in Inflation with a Massive Nonminimal Scalar Field
Author
Jung-Jeng, Huang
Publication year
2015
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
ISSN
16877357
e-ISSN
16877365
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
1659058939
Copyright
Copyright © 2015 Jung-Jeng Huang. Jung-Jeng Huang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The publication of this article was funded by SCOAP3 .