Published June 12, 2000 | Version v1
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Solitons in brane worlds

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We study some aspects of dilatonic domain walls in relation to the idea on the noncompact internal space. We find that the warp factor in the spacetime metric increases as one moves away from the domain wall for all the supersymmetric dilatonic domain wall solutions obtained from the (intersecting) BPS branes in string theories through toroidal compactifications, unlike the case of the Randall-Sundrum model. On the other hand, when the dilaton coupling parameter a for the D-dimensional extreme dilatonic domain wall takes the values a2<4/(D-2)2, the Kaluza-Klein spectrum of graviton has the same structure as that of the Randall-Sundrum model (and the warp factor decreases in the finite interval around the dilatonic domain wall), thereby implying the possibility of extending the Randall-Sundrum model to the a2<4/(D-2)2 case. We construct fully localized solutions describing extreme dilatonic branes within extreme dilatonic domain walls and the supersymmetric branes within the supersymmetric domain walls of string theories. These solutions are valid in any region of spacetime, not just in the region close to the domain walls

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S0550321300001747;

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Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
576
Journal Issue
1-3
Journal Page Range
p. 106-122
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

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Copyright (c) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.