Published October 15, 2004 | Version v1
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Note on the radion effective potential in the presence of branes

  • 1. Department of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071 (China)
  • 2. CCAST (World Laboratory) P.O. Box 8730, Beijing 100080 (China)
  • 3. Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 (United States)

Description

In String Theory compactification, branes are often invoked to get the desired form of the radion effective potential. Current popular way of doing this assumes that the introduction of branes will not modify the background geometry in an important way. In this paper, we show by an explicit example that at least in the codimension two case, the gravitational backreaction of the brane cannot be neglected in deriving the radion effective potential. Actually, in this case, the presence of branes will have no effect on the dynamics of radion

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
70
Journal Issue
8
Journal Page Range
p. 087901-087901.3
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2004 The American Physical Society