Revamped Braneworld Gravity

dc.creatorBao, Ruoyu
dc.creatorCarena, Marcela
dc.creatorLykken, Joseph
dc.creatorPark, Minjoon
dc.creatorSantiago, Jose
dc.date2005-11-25
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:27:18Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:27:18Z
dc.descriptionGravity in five-dimensional braneworld backgrounds often exhibits problematic features, including kinetic ghosts, strong coupling, and the vDVZ discontinuity. These problems are an obstacle to producing and analyzing braneworld models with interesting and potentially observable modifications of 4d gravity. We examine these problems in a general AdS_5/AdS_4 setup with two branes and localized curvature from arbitrary brane kinetic terms. We use the interval approach and an explicit ``straight'' gauge-fixing. We compute the complete quadratic gauge-fixed effective 4d action, as well as the leading cubic order corrections. We compute the exact Green's function for gravity as seen on the brane. In the full parameter space, we exhibit the regions which avoid kinetic ghosts and tachyons. We give a general formula for the strong coupling scale, i.e. the energy scale at which the linearized treatment of gravity breaks down, for relevant regions of the parameter space. We show how the vDVZ discontinuity can be naturally but nontrivially avoided by ultralight graviton modes. We present a direct comparison of warping versus localized curvature in terms of their effects on graviton mode couplings. We exhibit the first example of DGP-like crossover behavior in a general warped setup.
dc.description43 pages, 13 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0511266
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0511266
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D73:064026,2006
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.73.064026
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/196112
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleRevamped Braneworld Gravity
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