Cascading Gravity and Degravitation
Oct, 20086 pages
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- Can.J.Phys. 87 (2009) 201-203
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- 0810.0269 [hep-th]
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- PI-COSMO-97
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Abstract: (arXiv)
Cascading gravity is an explicit realization of the idea of degravitation, where gravity behaves as a high-pass filter. This could explain why a large cosmological constant does not backreact as much as anticipated from standard General Relativity. The model relies on the presence of at least two infinite extra dimensions while our world is confined on a four-dimensional brane. Gravity is then four-dimensional at short distances and becomes weaker and weaker at larger distances.Note:
- accepted in the Canadian Journal of Physics, to appear in a special issue devoted to the proceedings of Theory Canada 4
- 11.25.-w
- 11.10.Gh
- 11.10.Kk
- dark energy
- massive gravity
- large extra dimensions
- six-dimensional gravity
- gravitation: cascade
- cosmological constant
- higher-dimensional
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