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Probabilities in the Arkani-Hamed-Dimopolous-Kachru landscape

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

In a previous paper we found that in the context of the string theory ``discretuum'' proposed by Bousso and Polchinski, the cosmological constant probability distribution varies wildly. However, the successful anthropic predictions of the cosmological constant depend crucially on the assumption of a flat prior distribution. We conjectured that the staggered character of our Bousso-Polchinski distribution will arise in any landscape model which generates a dense spectrum of low-energy constants from a wide distribution of states in the parameter space of the fundamental theory. Here we calculate the volume distribution for Λ\Lambda in the simpler Arkani-Hamed-Dimopolous-Kachru landscape model, and indeed this conjecture is borne out.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0611237,
  title  = {Probabilities in the Arkani-Hamed-Dimopolous-Kachru landscape},
  author = {Delia Schwartz-Perlov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0611237},
  year   = {2008}
}

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12 pages, 4 figures