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Gravitational Lorentz Violations from M-Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In an attempt to bridge the gap between M-theory and braneworld phenomenology, we present various gravitational Lorentz-violating braneworlds which arise from p-brane systems. Lorentz invariance is still preserved locally on the braneworld. For certain p-brane intersections, the massless graviton is quasi-localized. This also results from an M5-brane in a C-field. In the case of a p-brane perturbed from extremality, the quasi-localized graviton is massive. For a braneworld arising from global AdS_5, gravitons travel faster when further in the bulk, thereby apparently traversing distances faster than light.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0206050,
  title  = {Gravitational Lorentz Violations from M-Theory},
  author = {X. Bekaert and N. Boulanger and J. F. Vazquez-Poritz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0206050},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX, references added, minor corrections and additions

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