2011/10/31 by H. Kawai, Hikaru Kawai, Takashi Okada · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Anthropic principle #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Context (archaeology) #Cosmological constant #Cosmological constant problem #Cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Coupling constant #Dark energy #Hierarchy problem #Higgs boson #Hubble's law #Mathematical physics #Naturalness #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Superposition principle #Theoretical physics #Universe #Wave function #Wormhole #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1143/ptp.127.689
published as Prog. Theor. Phys. 127 (2012), 689-721 · 35 pages, 11 figures. v2: added Section 5.3 with comments on the Wick rotation of the Lorentzian gravity. v3 some comments added
arxiv created 2012/01/24 · openalex publication_date 2012/04/01 · arxiv updated 2012/06/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We propose a solution of the naturalness problem in the context of the multiverse wavefunction without the anthropic argument. If we include microscopic wormhole configurations in the path integral, the wave function becomes a superposition of universes with various values of the coupling constants such as the cosmological constant, the parameters in the Higgs potential, and so on. We analyze the quantum state of the multiverse, and evaluate the density matrix of one universe. We show that the coupling constants induced by the wormholes are fixed in such a way that the density matrix is maximized. In particular, the cosmological constant, which is in general time-dependent, is chosen such that it takes an extremely small value in the far future. We also discuss the gauge hierarchy problem and the strong CP problem in this context. Our study predicts that the Higgs mass is mh = 140 ± 20 GeV and θ = 0.