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Non-conformally flat bulk spacetime and the 3-brane world

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We show that for non-conformally flat bulk spacetime, there exist no bound modes for zero mass graviton on the 3-brane. The brane world model is therefore unstable for the bulk spacetime being different from the conformally flat anti - de Sitter space.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0104174,
  title  = {Non-conformally flat bulk spacetime and the 3-brane world},
  author = {Parampreet Singh and Naresh Dadhich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0104174},
  year   = {2009}
}

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