| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1852867 | Physics Letters B | 2009 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
We argue that the cosmological constant is exponentially suppressed in a candidate ground state of loop quantum gravity as a nonperturbative effect of a holographic Fermi-liquid theory living on a two-dimensional spacetime. Ashtekar connection components, corresponding to degenerate gravitational configurations breaking large gauge invariance and CP symmetry, behave as composite fermions that condense as in Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory of superconductivity. Cooper pairs admit a description as wormholes on a de Sitter boundary.
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Authors
Stephon H.S. Alexander, Gianluca Calcagni,