A conical tear drop as a vacuum-energy drain for the solution of the cosmological constant problem

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2004.08.067zbMATH Open1247.83277arXivhep-th/0406025OpenAlexW2044417217WikidataQ126225928 ScholiaQ126225928MaRDI QIDQ452145FDOQ452145

Authors: A. Kehagias 

Publication date: 19 September 2012

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose a partial solution to the cosmological constant problem by using the simple observation that a three-brane in a six-dimensional bulk is flat. A model is presented in which Standard Model vacuum energy is always absorbed by the transverse space. The latter is a tear-drop like space with a conical singularity, which preserves bulk supersymmetry and gives rise to conventional macroscopic 4D gravity with no cosmological constant. Its cone acts like a drain, depleting vacuum energy from the three-brane to the tear drop increasing its volume. We stress that although gravity is treated classically, Standard Model is handled quantum-field theoretically and the model is robust against Standard Model corrections and particular details. The price paid is the presence of boundaries which are nevertheless physically harmless by appropriate boundary conditions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0406025

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constantvacuum-energy drain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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