Topological mass term in effective Brane-World scenario with torsion

Abstract

In this work we investigate a braneworld scenario where a Kalb-Ramond field propagates, together with gravity, in a five dimensional AdS slice. The rank-2 Kalb-Ramond field is associated with torsion. We study the compactification of the Kalb-Ramond field to four dimensional space-time without gauge fixing, focusing on the effects of torsion. On the brane the Kalb-Ramond field interacts with $A_{\mu }$-gauge and scalar matter fields. We analyze the propagators of this theory and as an application investigate the consistency of such a model in the presence of a cosmic string configuration. One interesting feature of this model is the presence of topological charge coming from a topological mass term that couples the gauge field $A_{\mu }$ with Kalb-Ramond modes.

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