2000/06/23 by Matej Pavšič, Matej Pavsic · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0375-9601(01)00189-x
published as Phys.Lett. A283 (2001) 8 · 14 pages
arxiv created 2000/06/23 · openalex publication_date 2001/05/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A brane world model is investigated, in which there are many branes that may intersect and self intersect. One of the branes, being a 3-brane, represents our spacetime, while the other branes, if they intersect our brane world, manifest themselves as matter in our 3-brane. It is shown that such a matter encompasses dust of point particles and higher dimensional p-branes, and all those objects follow "geodesics" in the world volume swept by our 3-brane. We also point point out that such a model can be formulated in a background independent way, and that the kinetic term for gravity arises from quantum fluctuation of the brane.