Gravity localization with a domain wall junction in six dimensions

2000/05/31 by Takeshi Nihei
Engineering · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Classical mechanics #Context (archaeology) #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Domain (mathematical analysis) #Domain wall (magnetism) #Engineering #Geology #Geometry #Gravitation #Graviton #Magnetic field #Massless particle #Mathematical analysis #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Metric (unit) #Physics #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quantum mechanics #Scalar (mathematics) #Supergravity #Supersymmetry #Tension (geology) #Theoretical physics #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.62.124017

published as Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 124017 · Latex, 13 pages, a paragraph and references added, typos corrected

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Abstract

We study gravity localization in the context of a six-dimensional gravity model coupled with complex scalar fields. With a supergravity-motivated scalar potential, we show that the domain wall junction solutions localize a four-dimensional massless graviton under an assumption on the wall profile. We find that, unlike the global supersymmetric model, contributions to the junction tension cancel locally with gravitational contributions. The wall tension vanishes due to the metric suppression.

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