Can compactifications solve the cosmological constant problem?

Recently, there have been claims in the literature that the cosmological constant problem can be dynamically solved by specific compactifications of gravity from higher-dimensional toy models. These models have the novel feature that in the four-dimensional theory, the cosmological constant Λ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Masoumi, Ali, Hertzberg, Mark Peter
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing/SISSA 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108006
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3850-3688