scholarly journals Effective Field Theory, Black Holes, and the Cosmological Constant

1999 ◽  
Vol 82 (25) ◽  
pp. 4971-4974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew G. Cohen ◽  
David B. Kaplan ◽  
Ann E. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Black Holes ◽  
Cosmological Constant ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field

WARPED COMPACTIFICATION ON SIGMA MODEL, SKYRMIONS IN SIX DIMENSIONS

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (31) ◽  
pp. 5670-5684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuta Kodama ◽  
Kento Kokubu ◽  
Nobuyuki Sawado ◽  
Noriko Shiiki
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Cosmological Constant ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Extra Dimensions ◽  
Sigma Model ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Winding Number ◽  
Bulk Cosmological Constant ◽  
Six Dimensions

We construct two distinct brane solutions in six dimensional effective field theory models. The CP 1 sigma model and the baby skyrmion realize warped compactification of the extra dimensions for negative bulk cosmological constant. Higher winding number solutions of the baby skyrmion are also presented.

scholarly journals Nonlocality in quantum gravity and the breakdown of effective field theory

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolás Valdés-Meller
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Black Holes ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Length Scales ◽  
Effective Metric

We argue that quantum gravity is nonlocal, first by recalling well-known arguments that support this idea and then by focusing on a point not usually emphasized: that making a conventional effective field theory (EFT) for quantum gravity is particularly difficult, and perhaps impossible in principle. This inability to realize an EFT comes down to the fact that gravity itself sets length scales for a problem: when integrating out degrees of freedom above some cutoff, the effective metric one uses will be different, which will itself re-define the cutoff. We also point out that even if the previous problem is fixed, naïvely applying EFT in gravity can lead to problems — we give a particular example in the case of black holes.

scholarly journals Uncovering the effective spacetime: Lessons from the effective field theory rationale

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (12) ◽  
pp. 1544019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Barceló ◽  
Raúl Carballo-Rubio ◽  
Luis J. Garay
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
General Relativity ◽  
Cosmological Constant ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Particle Spectrum ◽  
Low Energies ◽  
Minimal Modification

The cosmological constant problem can be understood as the failure of the decoupling principle behind effective field theory, so that some quantities in the low-energy theory are extremely sensitive to the high-energy properties. While this reflects the genuine character of the cosmological constant, finding an adequate effective field theory framework which avoids this naturalness problem may represent a step forward to understand nature. Following this intuition, we consider a minimal modification of the structure of general relativity which as an effective theory permits to work consistently at low energies, i.e. below the quantum gravity scale. This effective description preserves the classical phenomenology of general relativity and the particle spectrum of the standard model, at the price of changing our conceptual and mathematical picture of spacetime.

scholarly journals A REVIEW OF DISTRIBUTIONS ON THE STRING LANDSCAPE

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (17) ◽  
pp. 3441-3472 ◽  
Author(s):  
JASON KUMAR
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Cosmological Constant ◽  
Supersymmetry Breaking ◽  
Gauge Group ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Open String ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Basic Flux ◽  
Breaking Scale

We review some basic flux vacua counting techniques and results, focusing on the distributions of properties over different regions of the landscape of string vacua and assessing the phenomenological implications. The topics we discuss include: an overview of how moduli are stabilized and how vacua are counted; the applicability of effective field theory; the uses of and differences between probabilistic and statistical analysis (and the relation to the anthropic principle); the distribution of various parameters on the landscape, including cosmological constant, gauge group rank, and supersymmetry-breaking scale; "friendly landscapes;" open string moduli; the (in)finiteness of the number of phenomenologically viable vacua; etc. At all points, we attempt to connect this study to the phenomenology of vacua which are experimentally viable.

scholarly journals Dark energy from gravitational corrections

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (06n07) ◽  
pp. 1750037 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yugo Abe ◽  
Masaatsu Horikoshi ◽  
Yoshiharu Kawamura
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Dark Energy ◽  
Cosmological Constant ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Microscopic Level ◽  
Cosmological Constant Problem ◽  
Gravitational Fields ◽  
Dominant Part

We study physics concerning the cosmological constant problem in the framework of effective field theory and suggest that a dominant part of dark energy can originate from gravitational corrections of vacuum energy, under the assumption that the classical gravitational fields do not couple to a large portion of the vacuum energy effectively, in spite of the coupling between graviton and matters at a microscopic level. Our speculation is excellent with terascale supersymmetry.

Euclidean gravity and holography

2021 ◽  
pp. 2141005
Author(s):  
Daniel Harlow ◽  
Edgar Shaghoulian
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Recent Proposal ◽  
Black Hole Evaporation ◽  
Natural Mechanism ◽  
Deep Ultraviolet

We discuss a recent proposal that the Euclidean gravity approach to quantum gravity is correct if and only if the theory is holographic, providing several examples and general arguments to support the conjecture. This provides a natural mechanism for the low-energy gravitational effective field theory to access a host of deep ultraviolet properties, like the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy of black holes, the unitarity of black hole evaporation, and the lack of exact global symmetries.

scholarly journals Overcounting of interior excitations: a resolution to the bags of gold paradox in AdS

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joydeep Chakravarty
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Hilbert Space ◽  
Black Holes ◽  
Matrix Models ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Spectral Properties ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
Bulk State ◽  
Enormous Number

Abstract In this work, we investigate how single-sided and eternal black holes in AdS can host an enormous number of semiclassical excitations in their interior, which is seemingly not reflected in the Bekenstein Hawking entropy. In addition to the paradox in the entropy, we argue that the treatment of such excitations using effective field theory also violates black holes’ expected spectral properties. We propose that these mysteries are resolved because apparently orthogonal semiclassical bulk excitations have small inner products between them; and consequently, a vast number of semiclassical excitations can be constructed using the Hilbert space which describes black hole’s interior. We show that there is no paradox in the dual CFT description and comment upon the initial bulk state, which leads to the paradox. Further, we demonstrate our proposed resolution in the context of small N toy matrix models, where we model the construction of these large number of excitations. We conclude by discussing why this resolution is special to black holes.

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