Balancing the vacuum energy in heterotic M-theory

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2010.03.008zbMATH Open1204.81133arXiv0907.1602OpenAlexW2040409929MaRDI QIDQ622705FDOQ622705

Authors: Nasr Ahmed, Ian G. Moss 

Publication date: 3 February 2011

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

Abstract: Moduli stabilisation is explored in the context of low-energy heterotic $M$-theory to show that a small value of the cosmological constant can result from a balance between the negative potential energy left over from stabilising the moduli and a positive Casimir energy from the higher dimensions. Supersymmetry breaking is induced by the fermion boundary conditions on the two branes in the theory. An explicit calculation of the Casimir energy for the gravitino reveals that the energy has the correct sign, although the size of the contribution is close to the edge of the parameter range for which the calculation is valid.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.1602

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) 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) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)

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• Note on dark energy and cosmic transit in a scale-invariance cosmology

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