Dynamical symmetry breaking and the cosmological constant problem
Abstract
We outline a program with the potential to solve both the cosmological constant and quantum gravity problems within a single, comprehensive framework, one that is formulated entirely in four spacetime dimensions. The program is based on an interplay between the dynamical symmetry breaking of particle physics and a gravity theory, conformal gravity, which possesses an underlying local conformal invariant structure. Central to the discussion is the recognition that when symmetry is broken dynamically in a conformal invariant theory, the cosmological constant is both induced by and constrained by zero-point fluctuations. We describe what still needs to be done.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0809.1200,
title = {Dynamical symmetry breaking and the cosmological constant problem},
author = {Philip D. Mannheim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.1200},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages. Prepared for the proceedings of 34th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2008), Philadelphia, July 2008. Revised version contains minor changes to incorporate ICHEP08 modified slac.rtx style file