Cascading Gravity and Degravitation

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2007-12-17

arxiv.org/abs/0712.2821v1

JCAP 0802:011,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

31 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2008/02/011

We construct a cascading brane model of gravity in which the behavior of the gravitational force law interpolates from (n+4)-dimensional to (n+3)-dimensional all the way down to 4-dimensional from longer to shorter length scales. We show that at the linearized level, this model exhibits the features necessary for degravitation of the cosmological constant. The model is shown to be ghost free with the addition of suitable brane kinetic operators, and we demonstrate this using a number of independent procedures. Consequently this is a consistent IR modification of gravity, providing a promising framework for a dynamical, degravitating solution of the cosmological constant problem.

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