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Cosmological constant and gravitational theory on D-brane

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v2 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In a toy model we derive the gravitational equation on a self-gravitating curved D-brane. The effective theory on the brane is drastically changed from the ordinal Einstein equation. The net cosmological constant on the brane depends on a tuning between the brane tension and the brane charges. Moreover, non-zero matter stress tensor exists if the net cosmological constant is not zero. This fact indicates a direct connection between matters on the brane and the dark energy.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0307151,
  title  = {Cosmological constant and gravitational theory on D-brane},
  author = {Tetsuya Shiromizu and Kazuya Koyama and Takashi Torii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0307151},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, minor corrections, accepted for publication in Physical Review D