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Newtonian gravity and resonance on de-Sitter branes
A dS brane on the boundary between two five-dimensional spacetimes is
determined. We consider asymmetric scenarios with AdS vacua at each side
of the dS brane; and as a result, a resonant mode inside of the spectrum of the
gravitational fluctuations is found. We analyze the deviations to the Newton
potential generated by the gravitational excitations, finding that, for
scenarios with large values of the cosmological constants, the contribution of
the resonant mode is exponentially suppressed. However, when one of the vacua
is null, the resonant mode belongs to the light states set of the gravitational
fluctuations and five-dimensional gravity is recovered on the dS brane.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure
Close to the edge: hierarchy in a double braneworld
We show that the hierarchy between the Planck and the weak scales can follow
from the tendency of gravitons and fermions to localize at different edges of a
thick double wall embedded in an spacetime without reflection symmetry.
This double wall is a stable BPS thick-wall solution with two sub-walls located
at its edges; fermions are coupled to the scalar field through Yukawa
interactions, but the the lack of reflection symmetry forces them to be
localized in one of the sub-walls. We show that the graviton zero-mode
wavefunction is suppressed in the fermion edge by an exponential function of
the distance between the sub-walls, and that the massive modes decouple so that
Newtonian gravity is recuperated.Comment: Some typos corrected, references adde
Gauge field localization on brane worlds
We consider the effects of spacetime curvature and brane thickness on the
localization of gauge fields on a brane via kinetic terms induced by localized
fermions. We find that in a warped geometry with and infinitely thin brane,
both the infrared and the ultraviolet behavior of the electromagnetic
propagator are affected, providing a more stringent bound on the brane's
tension than that coming from the requirement of four-dimensional gravity on
the brane. On the other hand, for a thick wall in a flat spacetime, where the
fermions are localized by means of a Yukawa coupling, we find that
4-dimensional electromagnetism is recovered in a region bounded from above by
the same critical distance appearing in the thin case, but also from below by a
new scale related to the brane's thickness and the electromagnetic couplings.Comment: 7 page
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