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Curved dilatonic brane-worlds and the cosmological constant problem

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-06 v3 Condensed Matter General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We construct a model for dilatonic brane worlds with constant curvature on the brane, i.e. a non-zero four-dimensional cosmological constant, given in function of the dilaton coupling and the cosmological constant of the bulk. We compare this family of solutions to other known dilatonic domain wall solutions and apply a self-tunning mechanism to check the stability of our solutions under quantum fluctuations living on the brane.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0005116,
  title  = {Curved dilatonic brane-worlds and the cosmological constant problem},
  author = {Natxo Alonso-Alberca and Bert Janssen and Pedro J. Silva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0005116},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

latex, 6 pages. (v2): considerable changes in the conclusion. (v3): added new discussion on the solutions and some references; version to appear in CQG