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The Grand Canonical Multiverse and the Small Cosmological Constant

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-09-28 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We consider the Multiverse as an ensemble of universes. Using standard statistical physics analysis we get that the Cosmological Constant (CC) is exponentially small. The small and finite CC is achieved without any anthropic reasoning. We then quantize the CC. The quantization allows a precise summation of the possible contributions and using the measured value of the CC yields a prediction on the temperature of the Multiverse that we define. Furthermore, quantization allows the interpretation of a single Universe as a superposition of different eigenstates with different energy levels rather than the existence of an actual Multiverse.

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@article{arxiv.2110.06249,
  title  = {The Grand Canonical Multiverse and the Small Cosmological Constant},
  author = {Ido Ben-Dayan and Merav Hadad and Amir Michaelis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.06249},
  year   = {2022}
}

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