Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2007-05-14
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.171:88-98,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
17 pages; based on Carg\`ese lectures of 2006; to appear in proceedings
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2007.06.00
A brief introduction is given to the subject of brane induced gravity. The 5D example is discussed in detail. The 4D laws of gravity are obtained on a brane embedded in an infinite volume extra space, where the problem of stabilization of the volume modulus is absent. The theory has two classically disjoint branches of solutions -- the conventional and self-accelerated one. The conventional branch gives a perturbatively stable model of a metastable graviton, with potentially testable predictions within the Solar system. The self-accelerated branch, on the other hand, provides an existence proof for an idea that the accelerated expansion of the Universe could be due to modified gravity. The issue of perturbative stability of the self-accelerated branch is obscured by a breakdown of the conventional perturbative expansion. However, a certain exact non-perturbative solution found in hep-th/0612016 exhibits a net negative gravitational mass, while this mass is positive on the conventional branch. This suggest that the self-accelerated solution must be non-perturbatively unstable. A proposal to overcome this problem in an extension of the original model, that also allows for the quantum gravity scale to be unrestricted, is briefly discussed.
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