Could There Be Something Rather Than Nothing?
arXiv:hep-ph/9307346 · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(93)91606-N
Abstract
There is increasing evidence that the universe may have a small cosmological constant. We suggest a scheme for naturally generating a small cosmological constant. Our idea requires the presence of a discrete accidental symmetry which is spontaneously broken by vacuum expectation values of the fields, and explicitly broken by high dimensional operators in the Lagrangian.
9 pages, 1 ps figure (included), in TeX, using harvmac; HUTP-93/A020
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