TY - JOUR
T1 - Gravity cutoff in theories with large discrete symmetries
AU - Dvali, Gia
AU - Redi, Michele
AU - Sibiryakov, Sergey
AU - Vainshtein, Arkady
PY - 2008/10/10
Y1 - 2008/10/10
N2 - We set an upper bound on the gravitational cutoff in theories with exact quantum numbers of large N periodicity, such as ZN discrete symmetries. The bound stems from black hole physics. It is similar to the bound appearing in theories with N particle species, though a priori, a large discrete symmetry does not imply a large number of species. Thus, there emerges a potentially wide class of new theories that address the hierarchy problem by lowering the gravitational cutoff due to the existence of large Z1032-type symmetries.
AB - We set an upper bound on the gravitational cutoff in theories with exact quantum numbers of large N periodicity, such as ZN discrete symmetries. The bound stems from black hole physics. It is similar to the bound appearing in theories with N particle species, though a priori, a large discrete symmetry does not imply a large number of species. Thus, there emerges a potentially wide class of new theories that address the hierarchy problem by lowering the gravitational cutoff due to the existence of large Z1032-type symmetries.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.151603
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.151603
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:54849406644
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 101
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 15
M1 - 151603
ER -