Induced Gravity on Intersecting Branes
Abstract
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We establish Einstein-Hilbert gravity couplings in the effective action for Intersecting Brane Worlds. The four-dimensional induced Planck mass is determined by calculating graviton scattering amplitudes at one-loop in the string perturbation expansion. We derive a general formula linking the induced Planck mass for N=1 supersymmetric backgrounds directly to the string partition function. We carry out the computation explicitly for simple examples, obtaining analytic expressions.
references added, minor changes to discussion of path integral normalization on page 5
references added, minor changes to discussion of path integral normalization on page 5