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Cosmological Constant Seesaw in Quantum Cosmology

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Recently a phenomenological relationship for the observed cosmological constant has been discussed by Motl and Carroll in the context of treating the cosmological constant as a 2×22\times 2 matrix but no specific realization of the idea was provided. We realize a cosmological constant seesaw mechanism in the context of quantum cosmology. The main observation used is that a positive cosmological constant plays the role of a Mass2Mass^2 term in the Wheeler DeWitt (WDW) equation. Modifying the WDW equation to include a coupling between two universes, one of which has planck scale vacuum energy and another which has vacuum energy at the supersymmetry breaking scale before mixing, we obtain the relation λ=(10TeV)8/MPl4\lambda = (10TeV)^8/M_{Pl}^4 in a similar manner to the usual seesaw mechanism. We discuss how the picture fits in with our current understanding of string/M-theory cosmologies. In particular we discuss how these results might be extended in the context of exact wave functions of the universe derived from certain string models.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0602112,
  title  = {Cosmological Constant Seesaw in Quantum Cosmology},
  author = {Michael McGuigan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0602112},
  year   = {2007}
}

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