Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1999-12-02
JHEP 0005 (2000) 034
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
23 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2000/05/034
We study the low energy effective action $S$ of gravity, induced by integrating out gauge and matter fields, in a general class of Randall-Sundrum type string compactification scenarios with exponential warp factors. Our method combines dimensional reduction with the holographic map between between 5-d supergravity and 4-d large $N$ field theory. Using the classical supergravity approximation, we derive a flow equation of the effective action $S$ that controls its behavior under scale transformations. We find that as a result each extremum of $S$ automatically describes a complete RG trajectory of classical solutions. This implies that, provided the cosmological constant is canceled in the high energy theory, classical flat space backgrounds naturally remain stable under the RG-flow. The mechanism responsible for this stability is that the non-zero vacuum energy generated by possible phase transitions, is absorbed by a dynamical adjustment of the contraction rate of the warp factor.
Verlinde Erik
Verlinde Herman
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