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- Title
Vacuum Selection by Inflation as the Origin of the Dark Energy.
- Authors
Yokoyama, Jun'ichi; Ahluwalia, D. V.
- Abstract
I propose a new mechanism to account for the observed tiny but finite dark energy in terms of a non-Abelian Higgs theory, which has infinitely many perturbative vacua characterized by a winding number, in the framework of inflationary cosmology. Inflation homogenizes field configuration and practically realizes a perturbative vacuum with vanishing winding number, which is expressed by a superposition of eigenstates of the Hamiltonian with different vacuum energy density. As a result, we naturally find a nonvanishing vacuum energy density with fairly large probability, under the assumption that the cosmological constant vanishes in some vacuum state. Since the predicted magnitude of dark energy is exponentially suppressed by the instanton action, we can fit observation without introducing any tiny parameters.
- Subjects
DARK energy; ASTRONOMICAL perturbation; INFLATIONARY universe
- Publication
International Journal of Modern Physics D: Gravitation, Astrophysics & Cosmology, 2002, Vol 11, Issue 10, p1603
- ISSN
0218-2718
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0218271802002967