Monodromy inflation and an emergent mechanism for stabilising the cosmological constant

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2019)175zbMATH Open1409.83239arXiv1806.04740OpenAlexW3100011020WikidataQ128544539 ScholiaQ128544539MaRDI QIDQ667258FDOQ667258

Authors: Antonio Padilla 

Publication date: 12 March 2019

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that a pair of field theory monodromies in which the shift symmetry is broken by small, well motivated deformations, naturally incorporates a mechanism for cancelling off radiative corrections to the cosmological constant. The lighter monodromy sector plays the role of inflation as well as providing a rigid degree of freedom that acts as a dynamical counterterm for the cosmological constant. The heavier monodromy sector includes a rigid dilaton that forces a global constraint on the system and the cancellation of vacuum energy loops occurs at low energies via the sequestering mechanism. This suggests that monodromy constructions in string theory could be adapted to incorporate mechanisms to stabilise the cosmological constant in their low energy descriptions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04740

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zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravityeffective field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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