Dark energy and stabilization of extra dimensions

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2007/11/096zbMATH Open1245.83047arXiv0707.1062OpenAlexW2078093606MaRDI QIDQ445663FDOQ445663

Brian R. Greene, Janna Levin

Publication date: 26 August 2012

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss the role Casimir energies may play in addressing issues of moduli stabilization and dark energy. In particular, we examine a (non-supersymmetric) brane world scenario with toroidal extra dimensions in which Casimir energies of bulk fields generate a stabilizing potential for the toroidal volume while driving accelerated expansion in the non-compact directions. We speculate that such a scenario might establish a link between asymmetric topology and asymmetric geometry; that is, asymmetric topology could be linked to the hierarchy between large and small dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1062

zbMATH Keywords

dark energyCasimir energiesmoduli stabilization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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• Large Mass Hierarchy from a Small Extra Dimension
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• Topology and the cosmic microwave background
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• Moduli stabilization in a de Sitter compactification model
• Fermionic vacuum densities in higher-dimensional de Sitter spacetime
• Dark energy as evidence for extra dimensions

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