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Covariant Gravitational Equations on Brane World with Gauss-Bonnet term

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present the covariant gravitational equations to describe a four-dimensional brane world in the case with the Gauss-Bonnet term in a bulk spacetime, assuming that gravity is confined on the Z2Z_2 symmetric brane. It contains some components of five-dimensional Weyl curvature (EμνE_{\mu\nu}) which describes all effects from the bulk spacetime just as in the case of the Randall-Sundrum second model. Applying this formalism to cosmology, we derive the generalized Friedmann equation and calculate the Weyl curvature term, which is directly obtained from a black hole solution.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0309152,
  title  = {Covariant Gravitational Equations on Brane World with Gauss-Bonnet term},
  author = {Kei-ichi Maeda and Takashi Torii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0309152},
  year   = {2009}
}

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