General Relativity with small cosmological constant from spontaneous compactification of Lovelock theory in vacuum

Details General Relativity with small cosmological constant from spontaneous compactification of Lovelock theory in vacuum General Relativity with small cosmological constant from spontaneous compactification of Lovelock theory in vacuum

2008-12-22

arxiv.org/abs/0812.4311v2

Phys.Rev.D80:044029,2009

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

10 pages, no figures. Minor changes and references added. Final version for PRD

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.80.044029

It is shown that Einstein gravity in four dimensions with small cosmological constant and small extra dimensions can be obtained by spontaneous compactification of Lovelock gravity in vacuum. Assuming that the extra dimensions are compact spaces of constant curvature, General Relativity is recovered within certain class of Lovelock theories possessing necessarily cubic or higher order terms in curvature. This bounds the higher dimension to be at least seven. Remarkably, the effective gauge coupling and Newton constant in four dimensions are not proportional to the gravitational constant in higher dimensions, but shifted with respect to their standard values. This effect opens up new scenarios where a maximally symmetric solution in higher dimensions could decay into the compactified spacetime either by tunneling or through a gravitational analogue of ghost condensation. Indeed, this is what occurs requiring both the extra dimensions and the four-dimensional cosmological constant to be small.

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