Exponentially Large Extra Dimensions
Abstract
We show how the presence of a very light scalar with a cubic self-interaction in six dimensions can stabilize the extra dimensions at radii which are naturally exponentially large, , where is a microscopic physics scale and is the (dimensionless) cubic coupling constant. The resulting radion mode of the metric becomes a very light degree of freedom whose mass, is stable under radiative corrections. For eV the radion is extremely light, eV. Its couplings cause important deviations from General Relativity in the very early universe, but naturally evolve to phenomenologically acceptable values at present.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0105261,
title = {Exponentially Large Extra Dimensions},
author = {A. Albrecht and C. P. Burgess and F. Ravndal and C. Skordis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0105261},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
15 Pages including 1 figure. V3: Final version accepted for publication in PRD. This version has an improved discussion (in section IV-B) of our mechanism for preserving the small radion mass. No changes have been made to the technical content or results