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Scalar mode analysis of the warped Salam-Sezgin model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the scalar perturbation sector of the general axisymmetric warped Salam-Sezgin model with codimension-2 branes. We focus on the perturbations which mix with the dilaton. We show that the scalar fluctuations analysis can be reduced to studying two scalar modes of constant wavefunction, plus modes of non-constant wavefunction which obey a single Schroedinger equation. From the obtained explicit solution of the scalar modes, we point out the importance of the non-constant modes in describing the four dimensional effective theory. This observation remains true for the unwarped case and was neglected in the relevant literature. Furthermore, we show that the warped solutions are free of instabilities.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0602208,
  title  = {Scalar mode analysis of the warped Salam-Sezgin model},
  author = {Hyun Min Lee and Antonios Papazoglou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0602208},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

20 pages, 1 figure, comments and references added, typo changing conclusions corrected