Origami World

Nemanja Kaloper

doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2004/05/061

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Origami World

arXiv:hep-th/0403208 · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2004/05/061

Abstract

We paste together patches of $A d S_{6}$ to find solutions which describe two 4-branes intersecting on a 3-brane with non-zero tension. We construct explicitly brane arrays with Minkowski, de Sitter and Anti-de Sitter geometries intrinsic to the 3-brane, and describe how to generalize these solutions to the case of $A d S_{4 + n}$ , $n > 2$ , where $n$ $n + 2$ -branes intersect on a 3-brane. The Minkowski and de Sitter solutions localize gravity to the intersection, leading to 4D Newtonian gravity at large distances. We show this explicitly in the case of Minkowski origami by finding the zero-mode graviton, and computing the couplings of the bulk gravitons to the matter on the intersection. In de Sitter case, this follows from the finiteness of the bulk volume. The effective 4D Planck scale depends on the square of the fundamental 6D Planck scale, the $A d S_{6}$ radius and the angles between the 4-branes and the radial $A d S$ direction, and for the Minkowski origami it is $M_{4}^{2} = 2/3 (tan α_{1} + tan α_{2}) M_{*}^{4} L^{2}$ . If $M_{*} \sim few \times T e V$ this may account for the Planck-electroweak hierarchy even if $L \sim 1 0^{- 4} m$ , with a possibility for sub-millimeter corrections to the Newton's law. We comment on the early universe cosmology of such models.

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