Wormhole-surgery and cosmology on the brane: The World is not enough

Nov, 1999
10 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 62 (2000) 067502
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We show that the 5-dimensional model introduced by Randall and Sundrum is (half of) a wormhole, and that this is a general result in models of the RS type. We also discuss the gravitational trapping of a scalar particle in 5-d spacetimes. Finally, we present a simple model of brane-world cosmology in which the background is a static anti-de Sitter manifold, and the location of the two 3-branes is determined by the technique of ``surgical grafting''.
  • space-time
  • dimension: 5
  • field theory: action
  • gravitation
  • membrane model
  • field equations: solution
  • cosmological model
  • Randall-Sundrum model
  • wormhole