arXiv:0712.3040·v2·High Energy Physics — Theory
Renormalization-scale independence of the physical cosmological constant
Robert Foot🇦🇺 · Archil Kobakhidze🇦🇺 · Kristian L. McDonald🇨🇦 · Raymond R. Volkas🇦🇺
Abstract
Treating the metric as a classical background field, we show that the cosmological constant does not run with the renormalization scale -- contrary to some claims in the literature.
Comments: 3 pages; V2 to appear in PLB