Probable Values of the Cosmological Constant in a Holographic Theory

Petr Hořava; Djordje Minic

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1610

Probable Values of the Cosmological Constant in a Holographic Theory

Petr Hořava and Djordje Minic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1610 – Published 21 August 2000

Abstract

We point out that for a large class of universes, holography implies that the most probable value for the cosmological constant is zero. In four space-time dimensions, the probability distribution takes the Baum-Hawking form, $dP \sim \exp ({cM}_{p}^{2} / Λ) d Λ$ .

Received 25 January 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1610

Authors & Affiliations

Petr Hořava^1,2,* and Djordje Minic^1,3,†

¹CIT-USC Center for Theoretical Physics
²California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125
³Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0484

^*Email address: horava@theory.caltech.edu
^†Email address: minic@physics.usc.edu