A cosmological constant from degenerate vacua

Details A cosmological constant from degenerate vacua A cosmological constant from degenerate vacua

2001-10-16

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0110137v1

Phys.Rev.Lett. 88 (2002) 151302

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

8 pages, no figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.151302

Under the hypothesis that the cosmological constant vanishes in the true ground state with lowest possible energy density, we argue that the observed small but finite vacuum-like energy density can be explained if we consider a theory with two or more degenerate perturbative vacua, which are unstable due to quantum tunneling, and if we still live in one of such states. An example is given making use of the topological vacua in non-Abelian gauge theories.

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