Scalar tensor gravity in two 3-brane system

Jan, 2000
7 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 62 (2000) 021502
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Report number:
  • UTAP-360

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We derive the low-energy effective action of four-dimensional gravity in the Randall-Sundrum scenario in which two 3-branes of opposite tension reside in a five-dimensional spacetime. The dimensional reduction with the Ansatz for the radion field by Charmousis et al., which solves five-dimensional linearized field equations, results in a class of scalar-tensor gravity theories. In the limit of vanishing radion fluctuations, the effective action reduces to the Brans-Dicke gravity in accord with the results of Garriga and Tanaka: Brans-Dicke gravity with the corresponding Brans-Dicke parameter 0<ω<0< \omega < \infty (for positive tension brane) and 3/2<ω<0-3/2< \omega <0 (for negative tension brane). In general the gravity induced a brane belongs to a class of scalar-tensor gravity with the Brans-Dicke parameter which is a function of the interval and the radion. In particular, gravity on a positive tension brane contains an attractor mechanism toward the Einstein gravity.
  • gravitation: scalar
  • gravitation: tensor
  • dimension: 5
  • dimension: 4
  • dimensional reduction
  • Brans-Dicke model
  • membrane model
  • cosmological constant
  • attractor