Classical Defocussing of world lines from Higher Dimensions

R. Parthasarathy, K. S. Viswanathan, Andrew DeBenedictis

A five-dimensional gravity theory, motivated by the brane-world picture, with Kaluza scalar in the 5 - dimensional metric as $g_{55}(r);r=\sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2}$, is considered near t…