Revisiting Quantum Stabilization of the Radion in Randall-Sundrum Model
arXiv:1903.10160
Abstract
We study the stabilization of the radion in Randall-Sundrum-1 model by the Casimir energy of a bulk gauge field. The Casimir energy is proportional to a divergent, infinite summation over the zeros of a Wronskian of Bessel functions that implicitly depends on the radion vacuum expectation value, and its regularization and renormalization is the central issue. We carry out the correct regularization and renormalization by noting that analytic continuation must be performed only on functions that are independent of the radion vacuum expectation value. Thereby we find that the 1-loop effective potential of the radion generated by the Casimir energy can be renormalized with the boundary tensions, and we correctly obtain the renormalized effective potential. It is shown that a bulk gauge field satisfying Dirichlet condition at the positive (UV) boundary and Dirichlet condition at the negative (IR) boundary gives rise to an appropriate radion potential that stabilizes the radion vacuum expectation value in a way that a large hierarchy of the warp factor is generated naturally.
arXiv comment25 pages, 1 figure
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