Regularization of the linearized gravitational self-force for branes
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-05-12 v1
Abstract
We discuss the linearized, gravitational self-interaction of a brane of arbitrary codimension in a spacetime of arbitrary dimension. We find that in the codimension two case the gravitational self-force is exactly zero for a Nambu-Goto equation of state, generalizing a previous result for a string in four dimensions. For the case of a 3-brane, this picks out the case of a six-dimensional brane-world model as having special properties which we discuss. In particular, we see that bare tension on the brane has no effect locally, suppressing the cosmological constant problem.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0312198,
title = {Regularization of the linearized gravitational self-force for branes},
author = {R. A. Battye and B. Carter and A. Mennim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0312198},
year = {2010}
}
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4 pages