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Can we have a stringy origin behind $\Omega_\Lambda(t)\propto \Omega_m(t)$?

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-26 v2 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Inspired by the current observations that the ratio of the abundance of dark energy ΩΛ\Omega_{\Lambda}, and the matter density, Ωm\Omega_{m}, is such that Ωm/ΩΛ0.37\Omega_{m}/\Omega_{\Lambda}\sim 0.37, we provide a string inspired phenomenological model where we explain this order one ratio, the smallness of the cosmological constant, and also the recent cosmic acceleration. We observe that any effective theory motivated by a higher dimensional physics provides radion/dilaton couplings to the standard model and the dark matter component with different strengths. Provided radion/dilaton is a dynamical field we show that ΩΛ(t)\Omega_{\Lambda}(t) tracks Ωm(t)\Omega_{m}(t) and dominates very recently.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0408026,
  title  = {Can we have a stringy origin behind $\Omega_\Lambda(t)\propto \Omega_m(t)$?},
  author = {Tirthabir Biswas and Anupam Mazumdar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0408026},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages, discussions added on recent acceleration, typos corrected, references added

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