Could There Be Something Rather Than Nothing?
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-06-25 v1
Abstract
There is increasing evidence that the universe may have a small cosmological constant. We suggest a scheme for naturally generating a small cosmological constant. Our idea requires the presence of a discrete accidental symmetry which is spontaneously broken by vacuum expectation values of the fields, and explicitly broken by high dimensional operators in the Lagrangian.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9307346,
title = {Could There Be Something Rather Than Nothing?},
author = {W. D. Garretson and E. D. Carlson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9307346},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
9 pages, 1 ps figure (included), in TeX, using harvmac; HUTP-93/A020