Applications of an exact counting formula in the Bousso-Polchinski Landscape
arXiv:1003.6011 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.82.123532
Abstract
The Bousso-Polchinski (BP) Landscape is a proposal for solving the Cosmological Constant Problem. The solution requires counting the states in a very thin shell in flux space. We find an exact formula for this counting problem which has two simple asymptotic regime one of them being the method of counting low states given originally by Bousso and Polchinski. We finally give some applications of the extended formula: a robust property of the Landscape which can be identified with an effective occupation number, an estimator for the minimum cosmological constant and a possible influence on the KKLT stabilization mechanism.
arXiv comment43 pages, 11 figures, 2 appendices. We have added a new section (3.4) on the influence of the fraction of non-vanishing fluxes in the KKLT mechanism. Other minor changes also made
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