Exponential and power law hierarchies from supergravity

Jun, 1999
9 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 469 (1999) 123-128
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Report number:
  • CERN-TH-99-192

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Abstract:
We examine how a d-dimensional mass hierarchy can be generated from a d+1-dimensional set up. We consider a d+1--dimensional scalar, the hierarchon, which has a potential as in gauged supergravities. We find that when it is in its minimum, there exist solutions of Horava-Witten topology R^d X S^1/Z^2 with domain walls at the fixed points and anti-de Sitter geometry in the bulk. We show that while standard Poincare supergravity leads to power-law hierarchies, (e.g. a power law dependence of masses on the compactification scale), gauged supergravity produce an exponential hierarchy as recently proposed by Randall and Sundrum.
Note:
  • 10 pages Report-no: CERN-TH/99-192
  • supergravity
  • mass: hierarchy
  • any-dimensional
  • gauge field theory
  • domain wall
  • fixed point
  • space-time: anti-de Sitter
  • potential