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Stars in the braneworld

arXiv:hep-th/0107011 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.64.124010

Abstract

We show that in a Randall-Sundrum II type braneworld, the vacuum exterior of a spherical star is not in general a Schwarzschild spacetime, but has radiative-type stresses induced by 5-dimensional graviton effects. Standard matching conditions do not lead to a unique exterior on the brane because of these 5-dimensional graviton effects. We find an exact uniform-density stellar solution on the brane, and show that the general relativity upper bound is reduced by 5-dimensional high-energy effects. The existence of neutron stars leads to a constraint on the brane tension that is stronger than the big bang nucleosynthesis constraint, but weaker than the Newton-law experimental constraint. We present two different non-Schwarzschild exteriors that match the uniform-density star on the brane, and we give a uniqueness conjecture for the full 5-dimensional problem.

6 pages RevTex, 2 figs, minor corrections to match version to appear in Phys. Rev. D

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