Time-like extra dimensions without tachyons or ghosts

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00884-XMaRDI QIDQ5941702zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Andrés Iglesias, Z. Kakushadze

Publication date 21 August 2001

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0012049

zbMATH Keywords

5-dimensional Einstein-Hilbert-Gauss-Bonnet theorycompletely localized gravitysolitonic 3-brane solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: Some time ago Dvali, Gabadadze and Senjanovic (hep-ph/9910207) discussed brane world scenarios with time-like extra dimensions. In this paper we construct a solitonic 3-brane solution in the 5-dimensional Einstein-Hilbert-Gauss-Bonnet theory with the space-time signature (-,+,+,+,-). The direction transverse to the brane is the second time-like direction. The solitonic brane is $delta$-function like, and has the property that gravity is completely localized on the brane. That is, there are no propagating degrees of freedom in the bulk, while on the brane we have purely 4-dimensional Einstein gravity. In particular, there are no propagating tachyonic or negative norm states even though the extra dimension is time-like.

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