2008/05/31 by Delia Schwartz-Perlov
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2008/10/009
published as JCAP 0810:009,2008 · 33 pages, 7 figures Minor revisions made and references added. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:0705.2562
arxiv created 2008/09/04 · arxiv updated 2019/10/29
The assumption of a flat prior distribution plays a critical role in the anthropic prediction of the cosmological constant. In a previous paper we analytically calculated the distribution for the cosmological constant, including the prior and anthropic selection effects, in a large toy ``single-jump'' landscape model. We showed that it is possible for the fractal prior distribution we found to behave as an effectively flat distribution in a wide class of landscapes, but only if the single jump size is large enough. We extend this work here by investigating a large (N ∼ 10500) toy ``multi-jump'' landscape model. The jump sizes range over three orders of magnitude and an overall free parameter c determines the absolute size of the jumps. We will show that for ``large'' c the distribution of probabilities of vacua in the anthropic range is effectively flat, and thus the successful anthropic prediction is validated. However, we argue that for small c, the distribution may not be smooth.