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Natural solution to the naturalness problem: The universe does fine-tuning

  • 1. Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502 (Japan)

Description

We propose a new mechanism to solve the fine-tuning problem. We start from a multi-local action S=iciSi+i,jci,jSiSj+i,j,kci,j,kSiSjSk+, where the Si's are ordinary local actions. Then, the partition function of this system is given by Z=dλf(λ)f Texp(i0+dtH^(λ;acl(t))) i, where λ represents the parameters of the system whose Hamiltonian is given by H^(λ;acl(t)), acl(t) is the radius of the universe determined by the Friedman equation, and f(λ), which is determined by S, is a smooth function of λ. If a value of λ, λ0, dominates in the integral, we can interpret that the parameters are dynamically tuned to λ0. We show that this indeed happens in some realistic systems. In particular, we consider the strong CP problem, the multiple point criticality principle, and the cosmological constant problem. It is interesting that these different phenomena can be explained by one mechanism.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
Journal Volume
2015
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
16 p.
ISSN
2050-3911

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Copyright (c) The Author(s) 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Physical Society of Japan.
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