Published February 1, 2013 | Version v1
Journal article

A stringy mechanism for a small cosmological constant — multi-moduli cases

  • 1. Institute for Advanced Study, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong)

Description

Based on the properties of probability distributions of functions of random variables, we proposed earlier a simple stringy mechanism that prefers the meta-stable vacua with a small cosmological constant Λ. As an illustration of this approach, we study in this paper particularly simple but non-trivial models of the Kähler uplift in the large volume flux compactification scenario in Type IIB string theory, where all parameters introduced in the model are treated either as fixed constants motivated by physics, or as random variables with some given uniform probability distributions. We determine the value w0 of the superpotential W0 at the supersymmetric minima, and find that the resulting probability distribution P(w0) peaks at w0 = 0; furthermore, this peaking behavior strengthens as the number of complex structure moduli increases. The resulting probability distribution P(Λ) for meta-stable vacua also peaks as Λ → 0, for both positive and negative Λ. This peaking/divergent behavior of P(Λ) strengthens as the number of moduli increases. In some scenarios for Λ > 0, the likely value of Λ decreases exponentially as the number of moduli increases. The light cosmological moduli issue accompanying a very small Λ is also mentioned

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2013/02/006

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Journal Volume
2013
Journal Issue
02
Journal Page Range
p. 006
ISSN
1475-7516

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
45104366
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
COMPACTIFICATION; COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT; COSMOLOGY; POTENTIALS; PROBABILITY; RANDOMNESS; STRING MODELS; STRING THEORY; SUPERSYMMETRY
Descriptors DEC
COMPOSITE MODELS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; M-THEORY; PARTICLE MODELS; QUARK MODEL; SYMMETRY