LEADER 03927nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910450723303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-89912-7 010 $a9786611899127 010 $a981-270-313-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000334223 035 $a(EBL)296078 035 $a(OCoLC)476063242 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000114412 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11143165 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000114412 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10124419 035 $a(PQKB)11501629 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC296078 035 $a(WSP)00000242 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL296078 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10173919 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL189912 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000334223 100 $a20060214d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBrane-localized gravity$b[electronic resource] /$fPhilip D. Mannheim 210 $aHackensack, N.J. $cWorld Scientific$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (354 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a981-256-561-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 329-332) and indexes. 327 $aForeword; 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 Branes 327 $a12. 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 Brane 327 $a22. 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 Index 330 $aThis 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 iss 517 3 $aGravity 606 $aSuperstring theories 606 $aBranes 606 $aGravity 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSuperstring theories. 615 0$aBranes. 615 0$aGravity. 676 $a539.725 700 $aMannheim$b Philip D$0977042 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450723303321 996 $aBrane-localized gravity$92225759 997 $aUNINA