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arxiv: hep-th/0304148 · v2 · submitted 2003-04-16 · ✦ hep-th

Regularization of Brane Induced Gravity

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keywords branedimensionalhigherdielectricdistancesgravitongravityinduced
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We study the regularization of theories of ``brane induced'' gravity in codimension $N>1$. The brane can be interpreted as a thin dielectric with a large dielectric constant, embedded in a higher dimensional space. The kinetic term for the higher dimensional graviton is enhanced over the brane. A four dimensional gravitation is found on the brane at distances smaller than a critical distance $r<r_c$, and is due to the exchange of a massive resonant graviton. The crossover scale $r_c$ is determined by the mass of the resonance. The suppression of the couplings of light Kaluza-Klein modes to brane matter results in a higher dimensional force law at large distances. We show that the resulting theory is free of ghosts or tachyons.

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