Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2001-11-05
Mod.Phys.Lett.A16:2291-2304,2001
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Typos corrected, three references added. To appear in Mod. Phys. Lett
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217732301005709
We study the relationship between space-time-matter (STM) and brane theories. These two theories look very different at first sight, and have different motivation for the introduction of a large extra dimension. However, we show that they are equivalent to each other. First we demonstrate that STM predicts local and non-local high-energy corrections to general relativity in 4D, which are identical to those predicted by brane-world models. Secondly, we notice that in brane models the usual matter in 4D is a consequence of the dependence of five-dimensional metrics on the extra coordinate. If the 5D bulk metric is independent of the extra dimension, then the brane is void of matter. Thus, in brane theory matter and geometry are unified, which is exactly the paradigm proposed in STM. Consequently, these two 5D theories share the same concepts and predict the same physics. This is important not only from a theoretical point of view, but also in practice. We propose to use a combination of both methods to alleviate the difficult task of finding solutions on the brane. We show an explicit example that illustrate the feasibility of our proposal.
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