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Cosmological Breaking of Supersymmetry?

T. Banks

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0007146

Abstract

It is conjectured that M-theory in asymptotically flat spacetime must be supersymmetric, and that the observed SUSY breaking in the low energy world must be attributed to the existence of a nonzero cosmological constant. This would be consistent with experiment, if the critical exponent α in the relation MSUSY MP (Λ/MP4)α took on the value 1/8, rather than its classical value 1/4. We attribute this large renormalization to the effect of large virtual black holes via the UV/IR correspondence.

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