Massive Anti-de Sitter Gravity from String Theory
Abstract
We study top-down embeddings of massive Anti-de Sitter (AdS) gravity in type-IIB string theory. The supergravity solutions have a AdS fiber warped over a manifold M whose shape resembles that of scottish bagpipes: The `bag' is a conventional AdS-compactification manifold, while the `pipes' are highly-curved semi-infinite Janus throats. Besides streamlining previous discussions of the problem, our main new result is a formula for the graviton mass which only depends on the effective gravitational coupling of the bag, and on the D3-brane charges and dilaton jumps of the Janus throats. We compare these embeddings to the Karch-Randall model and other bottom-up proposals for massive-AdS-gravity, and we comment on their holographic interpretation. This is a companion paper to [1], where some closely-related bimetric models with pure AdSS throats were analyzed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1807.00591,
title = {Massive Anti-de Sitter Gravity from String Theory},
author = {Constantin Bachas and Ioannis Lavdas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.00591},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
18 pages, 3 figures. Added a comment and reference on the scale-separation problem. Corrected the normalization of free-energies in equation (25)