Spheres, deficit angles and the cosmological constant

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/16/306zbMATH Open1045.83070arXivhep-th/0305014OpenAlexW3103149559MaRDI QIDQ4470724FDOQ4470724

Authors: Ignacio Navarro 

Publication date: 15 June 2004

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

Abstract: We consider compactifications of six dimensional gravity in four dimensional Minkowski or de Sitter space times a two dimensional sphere, S^2. As has been recently pointed out, it is possible to introduce 3-branes in these backgrounds with arbitrary tension without affecting the effective four dimensional cosmological constant, since its only effect is to induce a deficit angle in the sphere. We show that if a monopole like configuration of a 6D U(1) gauge field is used to produce the spontaneous compactification of the two extra dimensions in a sphere a fine tuning between brane and bulk parameters is reintroduced once the quantization condition for the gauge field is taken into account, so the 4D cosmological constant depends on the brane tension. This problem is absent if instead of the monopole we consider a four form field strength in the bulk to obtain the required energy-momentum tensor. Also, making use of the four form field, we generalize the solution to an arbitrary number of dimensions (ge 6), keeping always four noncompact dimensions and compactifying the rest in a n-dimensional sphere. We show that a (n+1)-brane with arbitrary tension can be introduced in this background without affecting the effective 4D cosmological constant.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0305014

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zbMATH Keywords

tensionbranesix-dimensional gravityde Sitter space times

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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