Decelerating and accelerating back-reaction of vacuum to the Universe expansion

Abstract

Back-reaction of the massless scalar field vacuum to the Universe expansion is considered. Automatic renormalization procedure based on the equations of motion instead of the Friedman equation is used to avoid the cosmological constant problem. It is found, that the vacuum tends to decelerate an expansion of Universe if the conformal acceleration of Universe is equal to zero. In contract, the vacuum acts as the true cosmological constant in Universe expanding with the present day acceleration. Estimation for third derivative of the Universe scale factor with respect to conformal time is presented.