Gravitational uncertainties from dimension-six operators on supersymmetric GUT predictions

Abstract

We consider the gravity induced dimension six terms in addition to the dimension five terms in the SUSY GUT Lagrangian and find that the prediction for ${\alpha }_s$ may be washed out completely in supersymmetric grand unified theories unless the triplet higgs mass is smaller than $7\times 10^{16}$ GeV.

Comments: 7 pages,latex.Title of original version changed,text added and a figure has been added.Figure is available on request.To appear as a brief Report in Phys.Rev.D