A comment on the cosmological constant problem in spontaneously broken supergravity

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2004.09.054zbMATH Open1247.83268arXivhep-th/0407196OpenAlexW2062516593MaRDI QIDQ452173FDOQ452173

Arthur Hebecker

Publication date: 19 September 2012

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

Abstract: In spontaneously broken supergravity with non-flat potential the vanishing of the cosmological constant is usually associated with a non-trivial balancing of two opposite-sign contributions. We make the simple observation that, in an appropriately defined expansion of the superfield action in inverse powers of $M_P$, this tuning corresponds to the absence of two specific operators. It is then tempting to speculate what kind of non-standard symmetry or structural principle might underlie the observed extreme smallness of the corresponding coefficients in the real world. Independently of such speculations, the suggested expansion appears to be a particularly simple and convenient starting point for the effective field theory analysis of spontaneously broken supergravity models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0407196

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constantspontaneously broken supergravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supergravity (83E50) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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