Dynamics of M-theory vacua

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVD.69.106012zbMATH Open1405.83061arXivhep-th/0310203OpenAlexW2151719337MaRDI QIDQ4646759FDOQ4646759

Publication date: 14 January 2019

Published in: Physical Review D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: At very early times, the universe was not in a vacuum state. Under the assumtion that the deviation from equillibrium was large, in particular that it is higher than the scale of inflation, we analyse the conditions for local transitions between states that are related to different vacua. All pathways lead to an attractor solution of a description of the universe by eternal inflation with domains that have different low energy parameters. The generic case favors transitions between states that have significantly different parameters rather than jumps between nearby states in parameter space. I argue that the strong CP problem presents a potential difficulty for this picture, more difficult than the hierarchy problem or the cosmological constant problem. Finally, I describe how the spectrum of quark masses may be a probe of the early dynamics of vacuum states. As an example, by specializing to the case of intersecting braneworld models, I show that the observed mass spectrum, which is approximately scale invariant, corresponds to a flat distribution in the intersection area of the branes, with a maximum area A_max ~ 100 alpha'.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0310203

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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