Screening Bulk Curvature in the Presence of Large Brane Tension

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Agarwal, Nishant
Bean, Rachel
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We study a flat brane solution in an effective 5D action for cascading gravity in six dimensions, and propose a mechanism to screen extrinsic curvature in the presence of a large tension on the brane. The screening mechanism leaves the bulk Riemann-flat, thus making it simpler to generalize large extradimension dark energy models to higher codimensions. By studying an action with cubic interactions for the brane-bending scalar mode, we find that the perturbed action suffers from ghostlike instabilities for positive tension. The solution can be made ghost-free for sufficiently small negative tension, though the connection to 6D cascading gravity is less clear in this case.

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2011-06-01
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Suggested Citation: Agarwal, N., Bean, R., Khoury, J. and Trodden, M. (2011). Screening bulk curvature in the presence of large brane tension. Physical Review D. 83, 124004. © 2011 American Physical Society http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.124004
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