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Beck, Christian
Bibliographical reference
eprint arXiv:hep-th/0207081
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2002
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Description
We consider deterministic chaotic models of vacuum fluctuations on a
small (quantum gravity) scale. As a suitable small-scale dynamics,
nonlinear versions of strings, so-called `chaotic strings' are
introduced. These can be used to provide the `noise' for second
quantization of ordinary strings via the Parisi- Wu approach of
stochastic quantization. Extensive numerical evidence is presented that
the vacuum energy of chaotic strings is minimized for the numerical
values of the observed standard model parameters, i.e. in this extended
approach to second quantization concrete predictions for vacuum
expectations of dilaton-like fields and hence on masses and coupling
constants can be given. Low-energy fermion and boson masses are
correctly obtained with a precision of 3-4 digits, the electroweak and
strong coupling strengths with a precision of 4-5 digits. In particular,
the minima of the vacuum energy yield high-precision predictions of the
Higgs mass (154 GeV), of the neutrino masses (1.45E-5 eV, 2.57E-3 eV,
4.92E-2 eV) and of the GUT scale (1.73E16 GeV).