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Smooth thick braneworlds and the Gibbons-Kallosh-Linde no-go theorem

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-04-20 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

After working out the so called braneworld sum rules formalism in order to encompass Gauss-Bonnet terms, the generation of thick branes is proposed, even with a periodic extra dimension, what circumvents the Gibbons-Kallosh-Linde no-go theorem in this context.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1406.6324,
  title  = {Smooth thick braneworlds and the Gibbons-Kallosh-Linde no-go theorem},
  author = {Marco Dias and J. M. Hoff da Silva and Roldão da Rocha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.6324},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, no figures. This paper has been withdrawn by the authors since it is an old version. The new version may be found in http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.04243