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Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1610–1613 (2000)

Probable Values of the Cosmological Constant in a Holographic Theory

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Petr Hořava1,2,* and Djordje Minic1,3,†
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

Received 25 January 2000; published in the issue dated 21 August 2000

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, dPexp(cMp2/Λ)dΛ.

© 2000 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1610
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1610
PACS:
98.80.Cq, 04.70.Dy, 11.10.Kk

*Email address: horava@theory.caltech.edu

Email address: minic@physics.usc.edu