Gravitational double layers

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/7/072002MaRDI QIDQ5416463zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors José M. M. Senovilla

Publication date 20 May 2014

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1139

zbMATH Keywords

double layersfive-dimensional bulkgravitational dipolesshells/domain walls/braneworlds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: I analyze the properties of thin shells through which the scalar curvature R is discontinuous in gravity theories with R + R^2 Lagrangian on the bulk. These shells/domain walls are of a new kind because they possess, in addition to the standard energy-momentum tensor, an external energy flux vector, an external scalar pressure/tension and, most exotic of all, another energy-momentum tensor contribution resembling classical dipole distributions on a shell: a double layer. I prove that all these contributions are necessary to make the entire energy-momentum tensor divergence-free. This is the first known occurrence of such a type of double layer allowed in a gravity theory. I present explicit examples in constant-curvature 5-dimensional bulks, with a brief study of their properties: new physical behaviors arise.

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