Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2000-05-24
Nucl.Phys.B589:75-118,2000
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
46 pages, revtex; minor misprints corrected (to appear in Nucl. Phys. B)
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00514-9
We consider localization of gravity in domain wall solutions of Einstein's gravity coupled to a scalar field with a generic potential. We discuss conditions on the scalar potential such that domain wall solutions are non-singular. Such solutions even exist for appropriate potentials which have no minima at all and are unbounded below. Domain walls of this type have infinite tension, while usual kink type of solutions interpolating between two AdS minima have finite tension. Non-singular domain walls with infinite tension might a priori avoid recent ``no-go'' theorems indicating impossibility of supersymmetric embedding of kink type of domain walls in gauged supergravity. We argue that (non-singular) domain walls are stable even if they have infinite tension. This is essentially due to the fact that localization of gravity in smooth domain walls is a Higgs mechanism corresponding to a spontaneous breakdown of translational invariance. We point out that if the scalar potential has no minima and approaches finite negative values at infinity, then higher derivative terms are under control, and do not affect the cosmological constant on the brane which is vanishing for such backgrounds. Nonetheless, we also point out that higher curvature terms generically delocalize gravity, so that the desired lower dimensional Newton's law is no longer reproduced.
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