Can a pseudo-symmetry solve the cosmological constant problem?
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-28 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
A general no-go theorem dampens hope that the cosmological constant problem can be solved by a local symmetry mechanism. The possibility is considered here that this no-go theorem can be avoided by a pseudo-symmetry. A simple macroscopic effective field theory is constructed which admits an enhanced pseudo-symmetry in the absence of a cosmological term. It is pointed out that this pseudo-symmetry is an exact classical invariance of superstrings. The conjecture that this pseudo-symmetry survives in the quantum theory has several interesting consequences.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9502226,
title = {Can a pseudo-symmetry solve the cosmological constant problem?},
author = {Silas R. Beane},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9502226},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Changes in language (including new title), and assorted perestroika. One new consequence of conjecture. 10 pages, uuencoded Postscript file. To appear in Phys.Lett.b