2005/07/14 by A. Chatterjee, Ayan Chatterjee, Parthasarathi Majumdar · 16 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Brane #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Electromagnetic field #Gravitation #Gravitational field #Gravitational wave #Heterotic string theory #Higgs boson #Higgs sector #Physics #Polarization (electrochemistry) #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Spacetime #Tachyon #Theoretical physics #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.72.066013
published in Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields 72(6) (American Physical Society) · 13 pages Latex, no figures, discussion and acknowledgements added
arxiv created 2005/07/14 · openalex publication_date 2005/09/28 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Electromagnetic and (linearized) gravitational interactions of the Kalb-Ramond (KR) field, derived from an underlying ten-dimensional heterotic string in the zero slope limit, are studied in a five-dimensional background Randall-Sundrum I spacetime with standard model fields confined to the visible brane having negative tension. The warp factor responsible for generating the gauge hierarchy in the Higgs sector is seen to appear inverted in the KR field couplings, when reduced to four dimensions. This leads to dramatically enhanced rotation, far beyond observational bounds, of the polarization plane of electromagnetic and gravitational waves, when scattered by a homogeneous KR background. Possible reasons for the conflict between theory and observation are discussed.