Surprises with Nonrelativistic Naturalness
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-12-21 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Superconductivity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We explore the landscape of technical naturalness for nonrelativistic systems, finding surprises which challenge and enrich our relativistic intuition already in the simplest case of a single scalar field. While the immediate applications are expected in condensed matter and perhaps in cosmology, the study is motivated by the leading puzzles of fundamental physics involving gravity: The cosmological constant problem and the Higgs mass hierarchy problem.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1608.06287,
title = {Surprises with Nonrelativistic Naturalness},
author = {Petr Horava},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.06287},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
15 pages, a few figures