On the stability of field-theoretical regularizations of negative tension branes

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2005.07.047zbMATH Open1247.83188arXivhep-th/0506039OpenAlexW1967287961MaRDI QIDQ451846FDOQ451846

Authors: N. J. Nunes, Marco Peloso 

Publication date: 25 September 2012

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Any attempt to regularize a negative tension brane through a bulk scalar requires that this field is a ghost. One can try to improve in this aspect in a number of ways. For instance, it has been suggested to employ a field whose kinetic term is not sign definite, in the hope that the background may be overall stable. We show that this is not the case; the physical perturbations (gravity included) of the system do not extend across the zeros of the kinetic term; hence, all the modes are entirely localized either where the kinetic term is positive, or where it is negative; this second type of modes are ghosts. We show that this conclusion does not depend on the specific choice for the kinetic and potential functions for the bulk scalar.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0506039

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zbMATH Keywords

negative tension branes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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