Cosmological constant problems and their solutions

Details Cosmological constant problems and their solutions Cosmological constant problems and their solutions

2001-06-11

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0106083v2

in "The Dark Universe: Matter, Energy, and Gravity", ed. by M. Livio (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003)

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

19 pages, revtex. Based on talks given at ``The dark Universe'' (Space Telescope Institute) and PASCOS-2001 in April 2001

Scientific paper

There are now two cosmological constant problems: (i) why the vacuum energy is so small and (ii) why it comes to dominate at about the epoch of galaxy formation. Anthropic selection appears to be the only approach that can naturally resolve both problems. The challenge presented by this approach is that it requires scalar fields with extremely flat potentials or four-form fields coupled to branes with an extremely small charge. Some recent suggestions are reviewed on how such features can arise in particle physics models.

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