03921nam 2200649Ia 450 991078404540332120230617010043.01-281-89912-79786611899127981-270-313-6(CKB)1000000000334223(EBL)296078(OCoLC)476063242(SSID)ssj0000114412(PQKBManifestationID)11143165(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000114412(PQKBWorkID)10124419(PQKB)11501629(MiAaPQ)EBC296078(WSP)00000242 (Au-PeEL)EBL296078(CaPaEBR)ebr10173919(CaONFJC)MIL189912(EXLCZ)99100000000033422320060214d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBrane-localized gravity[electronic resource] /Philip D. MannheimHackensack, N.J. World Scientificc20051 online resource (354 p.)Description based upon print version of record.981-256-561-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-332) and indexes.Foreword; Preface; Contents; 1. Why Higher Dimensions are Interesting; 2. The Randall-Sundrum Set-Up; 3. General Structure of Anti-de Sitter Spacetimes; 4. General Properties of Embeddings; 5. The Israel Junction Conditions; 6. The Newtonian Limit of an Embedded Brane; 7. Embedding of Static Robertson-Walker Branes and Negative Pressure; 8. Embedding of de Sitter and Anti-de Sitter Branes in Ads5; 9. Embedding of Non-Static Robertson-Walker Branes in Ads5; 10. Embedding Robertson-Walker Brane Worlds in M(4, 2); 11. Null Geodesics of Ads5 Bulks Containing Robertson-Walker Branes12. Generalized Einstein Equations on the Brane13. General Structure of Brane-World Gravitational Fluctuations; 14. Transverse-Traceless M4 Fluctuation Modes; 16. Normalization of Fluctuation Modes and Curved Space Gauss's Law; 17. Fluctuations around an Embedded Positive-Tension Minkowski Brane; 18. Fluctuations around an Embedded Negative-Tension Minkowski Brane; 19. Fluctuations around an Embedded Positive-Tension Ads Brane; 20. Equivalent Schrodinger Equation Treatment of the Fluctuation Equation; 21. Fluctuations around an Embedded Positive-Tension dS Brane22. Dynamically Generated Domain Walls and the Brane WorldAppendix A Gauge Invariance of the Fluctuation Equation; Appendix B Perturbative Weyl Tensor; Appendix C Transverse and Transverse-Traceless Projection; Appendix D Fluctuation Energy-Momentum Tensor; Appendix E Retarded Propagators for Pure AdS and Pure dS Spacetimes; Appendix F Embedding M(2, 1) Branes in AdS4; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject IndexThis 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 issGravitySuperstring theoriesBranesGravitySuperstring theories.Branes.Gravity.539.72533.54bclMannheim Philip D1576927MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784045403321Brane-localized gravity3855073UNINA