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Dynamical Localization of Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We show that the thin wall limit of the thick domain wall associated with a sine-Gordon soliton in a single non-compactified patch of 5-dimensional spacetime explicitly yields the Randall-Sundrum localized gravity two patch brane, with its discrete Z2Z_2 symmetry arising from the discrete symmetry of the potential, and with the thin Minkowski brane Λ5+κ52Λb2/6=0\Lambda_5+\kappa^2_5\Lambda^2_b/6=0 relation between bulk and brane cosmological constants arising naturally without any need for fine tuning. Additionally we show that for an embedded thin de Sitter brane, localization of gravity is again possible provided the 5-space is compactified, with the now non-zero net cosmological constant Λ5+κ52Λb2/6\Lambda_5+\kappa^2_5\Lambda^2_b/6 on the brane being found to vary inversely with the compactification radius.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0009064,
  title  = {Dynamical Localization of Gravity},
  author = {Aharon Davidson and Philip D. Mannheim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0009064},
  year   = {2007}
}

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RevTeX, 9 pages. (updated version v2 with references to prior work, conclusions unchanged)