Nonsingular deformations of singular compactifications, the cosmological constant, and the hierarchy problem

Details Nonsingular deformations of singular compactifications, the cosmological constant, and the hierarchy problem Nonsingular deformations of singular compactifications, the cosmological constant, and the hierarchy problem

2000-06-13

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0006093v3

Class.Quant.Grav. 17 (2000) 3865-3880

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

Final version to appear in Class. Qu. Grav.; references and concluding remarks added, typos corrected. 18 pages, LaTeX, 1 ps f

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/17/18/319

We consider deformations of the singular "global cosmic string" compactifications, known to naturally generate exponentially large scales. The deformations are obtained by allowing a constant curvature metric on the brane and correspond to a choice of integration constant. We show that there exists a unique value of the integration constant that gives rise to a nonsingular solution. The metric on the brane is dS_4 with an exponentially small value of expansion parameter. We derive an upper bound on the brane cosmological constant. We find and investigate more general singular solutions---``dilatonic global string" compactifications---and show that they can have nonsingular deformations. We give an embedding of these solutions in type IIB supergravity. There is only one class of supersymmetry-preserving singular dilatonic solutions. We show that they do not have nonsingular deformations of the type considered here.

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