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We study perturbation theory for large-scale structure in the most general scalar-tensor theories propagating a single scalar degree of freedom, which include Horndeski theories and beyond. We model the parameter space using the effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-09 Marco Crisostomi , Matthew Lewandowski , Filippo Vernizzi

Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity in high dimensional spacetime is intriguing. Here, the properties of thick branes generated by a bulk scalar field in the five-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity were studied. With the help of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-22 Na Xu , Jing Chen , Yu-Peng Zhang , Yu-Xiao Liu

In this work, we investigate the quasinormal modes of a thick brane system. Considering the transverse-traceless tensor perturbation of the brane metric, we obtain the Schr\"odinger-like equation of the Kaluza-Klein modes of the tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-21 Qin Tan , Wen-Di Guo , Yu-Xiao Liu

In this work we present a simple thick braneworld model that is generated by an intriguing interplay between a 5D cosmological constant with a de Sitter metric induced in the 3-brane without the inclusion of scalar fields. We show that 4D…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-17 Alfredo Herrera-Aguilar , Dagoberto Malagon-Morejon , Refugio Rigel Mora-Luna

Braneworld scenarios consider our observable universe as a brane embedded in a five-dimensional bulk. In this work, we consider thick braneworld systems in the recently proposed dynamically equivalent scalar-tensor representation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-11 João Luís Rosa , Matheus A. Marques , Dionisio Bazeia , Francisco S. N. Lobo

The minimal theory of quasidilaton massive gravity allows for a stable self-accelerating de Sitter solution in a wide range of parameters. On the other hand, in order for the theory to be compatible with local gravity tests, the fifth force…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-29 Antonio De Felice , Shinji Mukohyama , Michele Oliosi

We study scalar cosmological perturbations in a braneworld model with a bulk Gauss-Bonnet term. For an anti-de Sitter bulk, the five-dimensional perturbation equations share the same form as in the Randall-Sundrum model, which allows us to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Tsutomu Kobayashi , Masato Minamitsuji

In the context of a five-dimensional theory with a scalar field non-minimally-coupled to gravity, we look for solutions that describe novel black-string or maximally-symmetric solutions in the bulk. The brane line-element is found to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-09 Panagiota Kanti , Theodoros Nakas , Nikolaos Pappas

Attempts at constraining theories of late time accelerated expansion often assume broad priors for the parameters in their phenomenological description. Focusing on shift-symmetric scalar-tensor theories with standard gravitational wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-28 Dina Traykova , Emilio Bellini , Pedro G. Ferreira , Carlos García-García , Johannes Noller , Miguel Zumalacárregui

The growing wealth of cosmological observations places increasingly more stringent constraints on dark energy and alternative gravity models. Particularly successful in efficiently probing the vast model space has been the effective field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-28 Lucas Lombriser , Charles Dalang , Joe Kennedy , Andy Taylor

The method of probe brane is the powerful one to obtain the effective action living on the probe brane from supergravity. We apply this method to the unstable brane systems, and understand the tachyon condensation in the context of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Kazuyoshi Takahashi

We investigate the dynamics of a boundary field coupled to a bulk field with a linear coupling in an anti-de Sitter bulk spacetime bounded by a Minkowski (Randall-Sundrum) brane. An instability criterion for the coupled boundary and bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Kazuya Koyama , Andrew Mennim , David Wands

Brane cosmology driven by the tachyon rolling down to its ground state is investigated. We adopt an effective field theoretical description for the tachyon and Randall-Sundrum type brane world scenario. After formulating basic equations, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Shinji Mukohyama

The nonlinear gravitational interaction is investigated in the Randall-Sundrum two branes model with the radius stabilization mechanism. As the stabilization model, we assume a single scalar field that has a potential in the bulk and a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Hideaki Kudoh , Takahiro Tanaka

We investigate maximally symmetric brane world solutions with a scalar field. Five-dimensional bulk gravity is described by a general lagrangian which yields field equations containing no higher than second order derivatives. This includes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Christos Charmousis , Stephen C. Davis , Jean-Francois Dufaux

The scalar perturbations of thick braneworld models provide critical insights into their matter-geometry relationship, distinct from tensor modes. This work systematically investigates quasinormal modes and gravitational echoes from scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-29 Weike Deng , Sheng Long , Qin Tan , Zu-Cheng Chen , Jiliang Jing

We use nonlinear perturbation theory to obtain new solutions for brane world models that incorporate a massive bulk scalar field. We then consider tensor perturbations and show that Newtonian gravity is recovered on the brane for both a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Parry , S. Pichler

This work sets up a general theoretical framework to study stability of models with a warped extra dimension where N scalar fields couple minimally to gravity. Our analysis encompasses Randall-Sundrum models with branes and bulk scalars,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-10-07 S. Mert Aybat , Damien P. George

We study a class of homogeneous but anisotropic cosmologies within the family of shift-symmetric Horndeski theories, where the scalar field features an inhomogeneous profile but it preserves a translational symmetry that is realised as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-13 J. Bayron Orjuela-Quintana , Jose Beltrán Jiménez

The static potential for a massless scalar field shares the essential features of the scalar gravitational mode in a tensorial perturbation analysis about the background solution. Using the fluxbrane construction of [8] we calculate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Benedict M. N. Carter , Alex B. Nielsen