Gravity and the Hierarchy Problem

2025/10/14 by Thede de Boer, Jisuke Kubo, de Boer, Thede +5
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2510.12882

openalex publication_date 2025/10/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/17 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We propose a mechanism where the dynamical generation of the Planck mass in scale invariant gravity leads to Einstein gravity, successful inflation and an explanation of the hierarchy problem of the Standard Model. We will discuss the scale generation by dynamical symmetry breaking and phenomenological consequences.

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