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Cosmological Breaking of Supersymmetry?

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-25 v1

Abstract

It is conjectured that M-theory in asymptotically flat spacetime must be supersymmetric, and that the observed SUSY breaking in the low energy world must be attributed to the existence of a nonzero cosmological constant. This would be consistent with experiment, if the {\it critical exponent} α\alpha in the relation MSUSYMP(Λ/MP4)αM_{SUSY} \sim M_P (\Lambda /M_P^4)^{\alpha} took on the value 1/8, rather than its classical value 1/4. We attribute this large renormalization to the effect of large virtual black holes via the UV/IR correspondence.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0007146,
  title  = {Cosmological Breaking of Supersymmetry?},
  author = {T. Banks},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0007146},
  year   = {2015}
}

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