Probable Values of the Cosmological Constant in a Holographic Theory
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- 21 August 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 85 (8) , 1610-1613
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.85.1610
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, .
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