Gauge-dependent cosmological 'constant'
Abstract
When the cosmological constant of spacetime is derived from the 5D induced-matter theory of gravity, we show that a simple gauge transformation changes it to a variable measure of the vacuum which is infinite at the big bang and decays to an astrophysically acceptable value at late epochs. We outline implications of this for cosmology and galaxy formation.
Citation
Bahram Mashhoon and Paul S Wesson 2004 Class. Quantum Grav. 21 3611