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Self-tuning solution of the cosmological constant problem with antisymmetric tensor field

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

We present a self-tuning solution of the cosmological constant problem with one extra dimension which is curved with a warp factor. To separate out the extra dimension and to have a self-tuning solution, a three index antisymmetric tensor field is introduced with the 1/H21/H^2 term in the Lagrangian. The standard model fields are located at the y=0y=0 brane. The existence \cite{kklcc} of the self-tuning solution (which results without any fine tuning among parameters in the Lagrangian) is crucial to obtain a vanishing cosmological constant in a 4D effective theory. The de Sitter and anti de Sitter space solutions are possible. The de Sitter space solutions have horizons. Restricting to the spaces which contain the y=0y=0 brane, the vanishing cosmological constant is chosen in the most probable universe. For this interpretaion to be valid, the existence of the self-tuning solution is crucial in view of the phase transitions. In this paper, we show explicitly a solution in case the brane tension shifts from one to another value. We also discuss the case with the H2H^2 term which leads to one-fine-tuning solutions at most.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0101027,
  title  = {Self-tuning solution of the cosmological constant problem with antisymmetric tensor field},
  author = {Jihn E. Kim and Bumseok Kyae and Hyun Min Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0101027},
  year   = {2009}
}

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LaTeX file of 21 pages, including 3 eps figues