Supersymmetry and the brane-world

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/18/16/312zbMATH Open0990.83012arXivhep-th/0001071OpenAlexW2041784693MaRDI QIDQ2762004FDOQ2762004

Publication date: 7 January 2002

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

Abstract: We investigate the possibility of gravity localization on the brane in the context of supersymmetric theories. To realize this scenario one needs to find a theory with the supersymmetric flow stable in IR at two critical points, one with positive and the other with negative values of the superpotential. We perform a general study of the supersymmetric flow equations of gauged massless supergravity interacting with arbitrary number of vector multiplets and demonstrate that localization of gravity does not occur. The same conclusion remains true when tensor multiplets are included. We analyze all recent attempts to find a BPS brane-world and conclude that localization of gravity on the brane in supersymmetric theories remains a challenging but unsolved problem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0001071

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zbMATH Keywords

five-dimensional supergravity brane-world BPS solutions negative tension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supergravity (83E50)

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