A Lapse in the Cosmological Constant Problem
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| author | Khoury, Justin Muntz, Benjamin Padilla, Antonio |
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| contents | We present a new mechanism for addressing the cosmological constant problem based on global constraints arising from a lapse function in a higher-dimensional gravitational theory. Inspired by Horava-Lifshitz gravity, we consider a 5d spacetime with anisotropic scaling along a compact extra dimension, while preserving Lorentz invariance in four dimensions. In the deep infrared limit, variation with respect to the lapse generates a global constraint on the 4d geometry, closely analogous to that of vacuum energy sequestering. Although the resulting effective gravitational equations differ from standard sequestering, radiative contributions to the Standard Model vacuum energy are nevertheless cancelled at all orders. |
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| spellingShingle | A Lapse in the Cosmological Constant Problem Khoury, Justin Muntz, Benjamin Padilla, Antonio High Energy Physics - Theory General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology We present a new mechanism for addressing the cosmological constant problem based on global constraints arising from a lapse function in a higher-dimensional gravitational theory. Inspired by Horava-Lifshitz gravity, we consider a 5d spacetime with anisotropic scaling along a compact extra dimension, while preserving Lorentz invariance in four dimensions. In the deep infrared limit, variation with respect to the lapse generates a global constraint on the 4d geometry, closely analogous to that of vacuum energy sequestering. Although the resulting effective gravitational equations differ from standard sequestering, radiative contributions to the Standard Model vacuum energy are nevertheless cancelled at all orders. |
| title | A Lapse in the Cosmological Constant Problem |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08659 |