Gravity on a brane in infinite-volume extra space

被引:438
作者
Dvali, G [1 ]
Gabadadze, G [1 ]
机构
[1] NYU, Dept Phys, New York, NY 10003 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2001年 / 63卷 / 06期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.63.065007
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We generalize the mechanism proposed in a previous paper and show that a four-dimensional relativistic tensor theory of gravitation can be obtained on a delta-function brane in flat infinite-volume extra space. In particular, we demonstrate that the induced Ricci scalar gives rise to Einstein's gravity on a delta-function type brane if the number of space-time dimensions is bigger than five. The bulk space exhibits the phenomenon of infrared transparency. That is to say, the bulk can be probed by gravitons with vanishing four-dimensional momentum square, while it is unaccessible to higher modes. This provides an attractive framework for solving the cosmological constant problem.
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