Towards Dark Energy from String-Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2017-08-23 v2
Abstract
We discuss vacuum energy in string and M-theory with a focus on heterotic M-theory. In the latter theory a mechanism is described for maintaining zero vacuum energy after supersymmetry breaking. Higher-order corrections can be expected to give a sufficiently small amount of vacuum energy to possibly account for dark energy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0801.0223,
title = {Towards Dark Energy from String-Theory},
author = {Axel Krause},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.0223},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
20 pages, 1 figure; v2: references added