Geometry of deformations of branes in warped backgrounds

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DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/7/021zbMATH Open1102.83020arXivhep-th/0512224OpenAlexW3105132369MaRDI QIDQ5290751FDOQ5290751

Sayan Kar, Supratik Pal

Publication date: 3 May 2006

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

Abstract: The `braneworld' (described by the usual worldvolume action) is a D dimensional timelike surface embedded in a N dimensional (N>D) warped, nonfactorisable spacetime. We first address the conditions on the warp factor required to have an extremal flat brane in a five dimensional background. Subsequently, we deal with normal deformations of such extremal branes. The ensuing Jacobi equations are analysed to obtain the stability condition. It turns out that to have a stable brane, the warp factor should have a minimum at the location of the brane in the given background spacetime. To illustrate our results we explicitly check the extremality and stability criteria for a few known co-dimension one braneworld models. Generalisations of the above formalism for the cases of (i) curved branes (ii) asymmetrical warping and (iii) higher co-dimension braneworlds are then presented alongwith some typical examples for each. Finally, we summarize our results and provide perspectives for future work along these lines.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0512224






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