Author : Philip D. Mannheim
Release : 2005
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 136/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Brane-localized Gravity by : Philip D. Mannheim
Download or read book Brane-localized Gravity written by Philip D. Mannheim. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely and valuable book provides a detailed pedagogical introduction and treatment of the brane-localized gravity program of Randall and Sundrum, in which gravitational signals are able to localize around our four-dimensional world in the event that it is a brane embedded in an infinitely-sized, higher dimensional anti-de Sitter bulk space. A completely self-contained development of the material needed for brane-world studies is provided for both students and workers in the field, with a significant amount of the material being previously unpublished. Particular attention is given to issues not ordinarily treated in the brane-world literature, such as the completeness of tensor gravitational fluctuation modes, the causality of brane-world propagators, and the status of the massless graviton fluctuation mode in brane worlds in which it is not normalizable.