Quintessential Vanishing of the Cosmological Constant
Abstract
We consider an effective field theory description of gravity coupled to a scalar field with volume-preserving diffeomorphism and Weyl invariances. The smallness of the cosmological constant is achieved when the potential of the scalar is extremely flat. This implies a possible relationship between the smallness and the quintessential sector of the cosmological constant.
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