High Energy Physics - Theory, abstract
hep-th/0607086

From: Peter Svrcek [view email]

Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:14:17 GMT (17kb)

Cosmological Constant and Axions in String Theory

Authors: Peter Svrcek

Comments: 22 pages

String theory axions appear to be promising candidates for explaining cosmological constant via quintessence. In this paper, we study conditions on the string compactifications under which axion quintessence can happen. For sufficiently large number of axions, cosmological constant can be accounted for as the potential energy of axions that have not yet relaxed to their minima. In compactifications that incorporate unified models of particle physics, the height of the axion potential can naturally fall close to the observed value of cosmological constant.

http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0607086