Relating the cosmological constant and slow roll to conformal symmetry breaking
arXiv:1405.7775 · doi:10.1142/S0217732314501958
Abstract
We show that a theory with conformal invariance, which is explicitly broken by small terms, provides a solution to the fine tuning problem of the cosmological constant. In the absence of the symmetry breaking terms, the cosmological constant is zero. Its value in the full theory is controlled by the symmetry breaking terms. The symmetry breaking terms also provide the slow roll conditions, which may be useful in constructing a model of inflation.
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