Possible explanations for fine-tuning of the universe

DOI10.1142/S0217751X17500488zbMATH Open1366.81294arXiv1609.00513MaRDI QIDQ5268025FDOQ5268025

Authors: Kiyoharu Kawana 

Publication date: 14 June 2017

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism and the multi-local field theory are interesting and promising candidates for solving the naturalness problem in the universe. These theories are based on the different physical principles: The former assumes the micro-canonical partition function $intcalDphipro{d}_{i}delta(S_i^{}-I_i^{})$, and the latter assumes the partition function $intcalDphiexpleft(i{S}_M^{}ight)$ where $S_M^{}$ is the multi-local action $su{m}_i{c}_i^{}{S}_i^{}+su{m}_{i,j}{c}_{i,j}^{}{S}_i^{}{S}_j^{}+cdots$. Our main purpose is to show that they are equivalent in the sense that they predict the same fine-tuning mechanism. In order to clarify our argument, we first study (review) the similarity between the Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism and statistical mechanics in detail, and show that the dynamical fine-tuning in the former picture can be understood completely in the same way as the determination of the temperature in the latter picture. Afterward, we discuss the multi-local theory and the equivalence between it and the the Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism. Because the multi-local field theory can be obtained from physics at the Planck/String scale, this equivalence indicates that the micro-canonical picture can also originate in such physics. As a concrete example, we also review the IIB matrix model as an origin of the multi-local theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.00513

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zbMATH Keywords

matrix modelFroggatt-Nielsen mechanismmicrocanonicalnaturalness problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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• Classical conformality in the Standard Model from Coleman's theory

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