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A naturally light dilaton

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-11-19 v2

Abstract

Goldstone's theorem does not apply straightforwardly to the case of spontaneously broken scale invariance. We elucidate under what conditions a light scalar degree of freedom, identifiable with the dilaton, can naturally arise. Our construction can be considered an explicit dynamical solution to the cosmological constant problem in the scalar version of gravity.

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@article{arxiv.1306.4601,
  title  = {A naturally light dilaton},
  author = {Francesco Coradeschi and Paolo Lodone and Duccio Pappadopulo and Riccardo Rattazzi and Lorenzo Vitale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.4601},
  year   = {2013}
}

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