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de Sitter branes in a flat bulk of massive gravity

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
 [1];  [2]
  1. Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States); DOE/OSTI
  2. Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
We construct de Sitter branes in a flat bulk of massive gravity in 5D. We find two branches of solutions, reminiscent of the normal and self-accelerating branches in DGP, but with rather different properties. Neither branch has a self-accelerating limit: the background geometry requires having a nonvanishing tension. On the other hand, on both branches there are sub-branches where the leading order contributions of the tension to the curvature cancel. In these cases it turns out that larger tensions curve the background less. Further, both branches support a localized 4D massless graviton for a special choice of bulk mass terms. This choice may be protected by enhanced gauge symmetry. Finally, we generalize the solutions to the case of bigravity in a flat 5D bulk.
Research Organization:
Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0009999; SC0019081
OSTI ID:
1611317
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 2019; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer BerlinCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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