On The Problem of Vacuum energy in Brane Theories
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-05-13 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We point out that modern brane theories suffer from a severe vacuum energy problem. To be specific, the Casimir energy associated with the matter fields confined to the brane, is stemming from the one and the same localization mechanism which forms the brane itself, and is thus generically unavoidable. Possible practical solutions are discussed, including in particular spontaneously broken supersymmetry, and quantum mechanically induced brane tension.
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@article{arxiv.0908.2070,
title = {On The Problem of Vacuum energy in Brane Theories},
author = {Ilya Gurwich and Shimon Rubin and Aharon Davidson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.2070},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
9 pages, 1 figure, to be published in Phys. Lett. B