Wave function of the radion in the brane background with a massless scalar field and a self-tuning problem
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-05-12 v3
Abstract
We consider flat solutions in the brane background with a massless scalar field appearing in 5D . Since there exist bulk singularities or arises the divergent 4D Planck mass, we should introduce a compact extra dimension, the size of which is then fixed by brane tension(s) and a bulk cosmological constant. Inspecting scalar perturbations around the flat solutions, we find that the flat solutions are stable vacua from the positive mass spectrum of radion. We show that the massless radion mode is projected out by the boundary condition arising in cutting off the extra dimension. Thus, the fixed extra dimension is not alterable, which is not useful toward a self-tuning of the cosmological constant.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0110103,
title = {Wave function of the radion in the brane background with a massless scalar field and a self-tuning problem},
author = {Jihn E. Kim and Bumseok Kyae and Hyun Min Lee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0110103},
year = {2011}
}
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Latex file of 18 pages including 1 eps figure