Massive states as the relevant deformations of gravitating branes
arXiv:0712.1225 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.78.085029
Abstract
Five-dimensional theories manifesting spontaneous brane generation are discussed in a gravitational context. Without gravity, the IR dynamics of the brane fluctuation below the brane tension scale is described by an effective theory for the Nambu-Goldstone modes. When gravity is properly taken into account the long distance dynamics changes. The spontaneous breaking of local translational invariance triggers the formation of massive representations via the Higgs mechanism and induces the appearance of new mass scales in the IR. These scales can in principle depend on other fundamental parameters besides the brane tension and the Planck scale. In noncompact extra dimensions the massive states are found to be scalar bound states. We obtain explicit expressions for their propagator and show that their masses depend on the brane width and are thus much heavier than expected. We present an exactly solvable model which captures the main features of the gravitational system.
Version published in Phys. Rev. D
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