Radion and moduli stabilization from induced brane actions in higher-dimensional brane worlds
Abstract
We consider a 4+N-dimensional brane world with 2 co-dimension 1 branes in an empty bulk. The two branes have N-1 of their extra dimensions compactified on a sphere S^(N-1), whereas the ordinary 4 spacetime directions are Poincare invariant. An essential input are induced stress-energy tensors on the branes providing different tensions for the spherical and flat part of the branes. The junction conditions - notably through their extra dimensional components - fix both the distance between the branes as well as the size of the sphere. As a result, we demonstrate, that there are no scalar Kaluza-Klein states at all (massless or massive), that would correspond to a radion or a modulus field of S^(N-1). We also discuss the effect of induced Einstein terms on the branes and show that their coefficients are bounded from above, otherwise they lead to a graviton ghost.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0402019,
title = {Radion and moduli stabilization from induced brane actions in higher-dimensional brane worlds},
author = {C. Charmousis and U. Ellwanger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0402019},
year = {2009}
}
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23 pages, no figures, references added, typos corrected