Linearized gravity on the Randall-Sundrum two-brane background with curvature terms in the action for the branes

Details Linearized gravity on the Randall-Sundrum two-brane background with curvature terms in the action for the branes Linearized gravity on the Randall-Sundrum two-brane background with curvature terms in the action for the branes

2003-12-22

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0312261v3

Class.Quant.Grav. 22 (2005) 987-1006

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

23 pages, revtex, published version

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/22/6/007

We study gravitational perturbations in the Randall-Sundrum two-brane background with scalar-curvature terms in the action for the branes, allowing for positive as well as negative bulk gravitational constant. In the zero-mode approximation, we derive the linearized gravitational equations, which have the same form as in the original Randall-Sundrum model but with different expressions for the effective physical constants. We develop a generic method for finding tachyonic modes in the theory, which, in the model under consideration, may exist only if the bulk gravitational constant is negative. In this case, if both brane gravitational constants are nonzero, the theory contains one or two tachyonic mass eigenvalues in the gravitational sector. If one of the brane gravitational constants is set to zero, then either a single tachyonic mass eigenvalue is present or tachyonic modes are totally absent depending on the relation between the nonzero brane gravitational constant and brane separation. In the case of negative bulk gravitational constant, the massive gravitational modes have ghost-like character, while the massless gravitational mode is not a ghost in the case where tachyons are absent.

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