A Stringy Mechanism for A Small Cosmological Constant - Multi-Moduli Cases -

TL;DR

This paper proposes a string theory-based mechanism that naturally favors vacua with a small cosmological constant, showing that the probability distribution peaks at zero and becomes sharper with more moduli, suggesting a statistical explanation for the smallness of mbda.

Contribution

It introduces a probabilistic approach to string compactifications, demonstrating that the distribution of mbda peaks at zero and becomes more pronounced with increasing moduli, providing a potential explanation for the small cosmological constant.

Findings

Probability distribution P(mbda) peaks at mbda=0.

Peaking behavior strengthens with more moduli.

Likely mbda decreases exponentially with more moduli.

Abstract

Based on the properties of probability distributions of functions of random variables, we proposed earlier a simple stringy mechanism that prefers the meta-stable vacua with a small cosmological constant \Lambda. As an illustration of this approach, we study in this paper particularly simple but non-trivial models of the K\"ahler uplift in the large volume flux compactification scenario in Type IIB string theory, where all parameters introduced in the model are treated either as fixed constants motivated by physics, or as random variables with some given uniform probability distributions. We determine the value w_0 of the superpotential W_0 at the supersymmetric minima, and find that the resulting probability distribution P(w_0) peaks at w_0=0; furthermore, this peaking behavior strengthens as the number of complex structure moduli increases. The resulting probability distribution P(\Lambda) for meta-stable vacua also peaks as \Lambda -> 0, for both positive and negative \Lambda. This peaking/divergent behavior of P(\Lambda) strengthens as the number of moduli increases. In some scenarios for \Lambda > 0, the likely value of \Lambda decreases exponentially as the number of moduli increases. The light cosmological moduli issue accompanying a very small \Lambda is also mentioned.