2002/07/29 by Massimo Giovannini · 4 citations
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry) #Gravitation #Infinitesimal #Invariant (physics) #Nonlinear Photonic Systems #Nonlinear Waves and Solitons #Nonlocal and gradient elasticity in micro/nano structures #Normal mode #Scalar (mathematics) #Scalar field #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/20/6/303
published as Class.Quant.Grav. 20 (2003) 1063-1076 · 20 pages in Latex style
arxiv created 2002/07/29 · openalex publication_date 2003/02/25 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · arxiv updated 2017/08/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The scalar normal modes of higher dimensional gravitating kink solutions are derived. By perturbing to second order the gravity and matter parts of the action in the background of a five-dimensional kink, the effective Lagrangian of the scalar fluctuations is derived and diagonalized in terms of a single degree of freedom which invariant under infinitesimal diffeomorphisms. The spectrum of the normal modes is discussed and applied to the analysis of short distance corrections to Newton law.