Dilatation symmetry in higher dimensions and the vanishing of the cosmological constant

Details Dilatation symmetry in higher dimensions and the vanishing of the cosmological constant Dilatation symmetry in higher dimensions and the vanishing of the cosmological constant

2008-06-04

arxiv.org/abs/0806.0741v2

Phys.Rev.Lett.102:141303,2009

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

4 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.141303

A wide class of dilatation symmetric effective actions in higher dimensions leads to a vanishing four-dimensional cosmological constant. This requires no tuning of parameters and results from the absence of an allowed potential for the scalar dilaton field. The field equations admit many solutions with flat four-dimensional space and non-vanishing gauge couplings. In a more general setting, these are candidates for asymptotic states of cosmological runaway solutions, where dilatation symmetry is realized dynamically if a fixed point is approached as time goes to infinity. Dilatation anomalies during the runaway can lift the degeneracy of solutions and lead to an observable dynamical dark energy.

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