Published October 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Discretizing gravity in warped spacetime

  • 1. Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, University of California and Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)

Description

We investigate the discretized version of the compact Randall-Sundrum model. By studying the mass eigenstates of the lattice theory, we demonstrate that for warped space, unlike for flat space, the strong coupling scale does not depend on the IR scale and lattice size. However, strong coupling does prevent us from taking the continuum limit of the lattice theory. Nonetheless, the lattice theory works in the manifestly holographic regime and successfully reproduces the most significant features of the warped theory. It is even in some respects better than the KK theory, which must be carefully regulated to obtain the correct physical results. Because it is easier to construct lattice theories than to find exact solutions to GR, we expect lattice gravity to be a useful tool for exploring field theory in curved space

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/1126-6708/2005/i=10/a=110/jhep102005110.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of High Energy Physics (ISSN 1029-8479) http://www.iop.org/

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
2005
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 110
ISSN
1126-6708