Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: We show that an earlier domain wall solution of type IIB supergravity provides a supersymmetric realization of the Randall–Sundrum brane-world, and give its ten-dimensional interpretation in terms of IIB 3-branes. We also explain how previous no-go theorems are circumvented. In particular, whereas D=5 supergravity scalars have AdS5 energy E0⩽4 and are unable to support a D=5 positive tension brane, our scalar has E0=8, and is the breathing mode of the S5 compactification. Another essential element of the construction is the implementation of a Z2 symmetry by patching together compactifications with opposite signs for their 5-form field strengths. This is thus a IIB analog of a previous D=5 3-brane realization of the Hořava–Witten orbifold. A mode-locking phenomenon avoids the appearance of negative energy zero-modes in spite of the necessity of a D=10 negative tension brane-source.
Source: Journal of Mathematical Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.1372698
Authors: M. J. Duff, James T. Liu, K. S. Stelle
Institutions: University of Michigan, Imperial College London
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: National Science Foundation
Award: Elementary Particle Theory
OpenAlex ID: W1997990609