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Weak gravitation from a small extra 2D sphere

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-11-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In order to explain weak gravitation in our 4-dimensional universe, a 6-dimensional model with a small extra 2D sphere is proposed. The traceless energy-momentum tensor is quite naturally appeared in our 6-dimensional model. The warp factor is given by ϕ(θ)=ϵ+sinθ\phi (\theta ) = \epsilon + \sin{\theta }, where ϵ\epsilon plays a role of killing the singular point ϕ(θ)=0\phi (\theta )=0, and is assumed 0<ϵ10 < \epsilon \ll 1. Any massive particle is rolling down into points along this geodesic line. The light ray can be shown to stay in our 4-dimensional universe. This suggest us that our 4-dimensional world can be located at θ=0\theta =0 and/or θ=π\theta = \pi , its background metric being ϵ2ημν\epsilon ^2 \eta _{\mu \nu }. As a result, we have the 4-dimensional Newton constant, which is given by GNG6ϵ10G_N \simeq G_6 \epsilon ^{10} and the fifth force coefficients appeared here are αiϵ2(i4)\alpha _i\simeq \epsilon ^{2(i-4)}, i=1,2,3i=1, 2, 3. Here G6G_6 is the gravitational constant in 6-dimensional spacetime. If we take ϵ=103.8\epsilon = 10^{-3.8} against G61(G_6\sim 1(GeV)2)^{-2}, we get GN1038(G_N\sim 10^{-38}(Gev)2)^{-2}, the present time gravitational constant.

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@article{arxiv.1711.08312,
  title  = {Weak gravitation from a small extra 2D sphere},
  author = {Akira Kokado and Takesi Saito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.08312},
  year   = {2017}
}

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16 pages, no figures

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