The five dimensional universal hypermultiplet and the cosmological constant problem

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2013.09.055zbMATH Open1331.83105arXiv1311.0266OpenAlexW1531765515MaRDI QIDQ5963890FDOQ5963890

Moataz H. Emam, Charles A. Canestaro

Publication date: 26 February 2016

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

Abstract: We model the universe as a 3-brane embedded in five dimensional spacetime with N=2 supersymmetry. The presence of the scalar fields of the universal hypermultiplet in the bulk results in a positive pressure effectively reducing the value of the cosmological constant and thereby providing a possible answer as to why the measured value of the cosmological constant is many orders of magnitude smaller than predicted from the vacuum energy. The solution allows for any number of parallel branes to exist and relates their cosmological constants (as well as matter densities and radiation pressures) to the value of the dilaton in the extra dimension. The results we find can be thought of as first order approximations, satisfying supersymmetry breaking and the Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) conditions in the bulk only.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0266

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Supergravity (83E50) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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• MINKOWSKI BRANE IN ASYMPTOTIC dS₅ SPACETIME WITHOUT FINE-TUNING
• \(\text{AdS}_ 5\) and the 4d cosmological constant.
• Interpreting the cosmic history of the Universe through five-dimensional supergravity
• Brane-worlds and the Calabi–Yau complex structure moduli

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