Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2000-03-12
Phys.Lett. B527 (2002) 1-8
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
10 pages, LaTeX, some cghanges in the text
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(01)01519-2
We introduce a generalized gravitational conformal invariance in the context of non-compactified 5D Kaluza-Klein theory. It is done by assuming the 4D metric to be dependent on the extra non-compactified dimension. It is then shown that the conformal invariance in 5D is broken by taking an absolute cosmological scale $R_0$ over which the 4D metric is assumed to be dependent weakly on the 5th dimension. This is equivalent to Deser's model for the breakdown of the conformal invariance in 4D by taking a constant cosmological mass term $\mu^2\sim R_0^{-2}$ in the theory. We set the scalar field to its background cosmological value leading to Einstein equation with the gravitational constant $G_N$ and a small cosmological constant. A dual Einstein equation is also introduced in which the matter is coupled to the higher dimensional geometry by the coupling $G_N^{-1}$. Relevant interpretations of the results are also discussed.
Darabi Farhad
Wesson Paul S.
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