Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2000-09-26
Mod.Phys.Lett. A15 (2000) 1879
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
13 pages, revtex; minor misprints and references corrected, clarifying remarks added (to appear in Mod. Phys. Lett. A)
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217732300002334
We consider an infinite-volume brane world setup where a codimension one brane is coupled to bulk gravity plus a scalar field with vanishing potential. The latter is protected by bulk supersymmetry, which is intact even if brane supersymmetry is completely broken as the volume of the extra dimension is infinite. Within this setup we discuss a flat solution with a ``self-tuning'' property, that is, such a solution exists for a continuous range of values for the brane tension. This infinite-volume solution is free of any singularities, and has the property that the brane cosmological constant is protected by bulk supersymmetry. We, however, also point out that consistency of the coupling between bulk gravity and brane matter generically appears to require that the brane world-volume theory be conformal.
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