Calculation of the Vacuum Energy Density using Zeta Function Regularization

Abstract

This paper presents a theoretical calculation of the vacuum energy density by summing the contributions of all quantum fields vacuum states which turns out to indicate that there seems to be a missing bosonic contribution in order to match the predictions of current cosmological models and all observational data to date. The basis for this calculation is a Zeta function regularization method used to tame the infinities present in the improper integrals of power functions.