Vacuum Energy Cancellation in a Non-supersymmetric String
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-07 v3
Abstract
We present a nonsupersymmetric orbifold of type II string theory and show that it has vanishing cosmological constant at the one and two loop level. We argue heuristically that the cancellation persists at higher loops.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9807076,
title = {Vacuum Energy Cancellation in a Non-supersymmetric String},
author = {Shamit Kachru and Jason Kumar and Eva Silverstein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9807076},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
31 pages harvmac big, 6 figures. New version includes the 2-loop analysis of hep-th/9810129 and elimination of one of the two heuristic arguments for higher loop cancellation