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A Warped Five-Dimensional Spacetime Conformally Revisited
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: Received: 26 October 2018 / Approved: 26 October 2018 / Online: 26 October 2018 (10:33:55 CEST)
How to cite: Slagter, R. J. A Warped Five-Dimensional Spacetime Conformally Revisited. Preprints 2018, 2018100624. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201810.0624.v1 Slagter, R. J. A Warped Five-Dimensional Spacetime Conformally Revisited. Preprints 2018, 2018100624. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201810.0624.v1
Abstract
We show that the Einstein field equations for a five-dimensional warped spacetime, where only gravity can propagate into the bulk, determine the dynamical evolution of the warp factor of the four-dimensional brane spacetime. This can be explained as a holographic manifestation. The warped 5D model can be reformulated by considering the warp factor as a dilaton field ($\omega$) conformally coupled to gravity and embedded in a smooth $M_4 \otimes R$ manifold. On the brane, where the U(1) scalar-gauge fields live, the dilaton field manifests itself classically as a warp factor and enters the evolution equations for the metric components and matter fields. We write the Lagrangian for the Einstein-scalar-gauge fields in a conformal invariant setting. However, as expected, the conformal invariance is broken (trace-anomaly) by the appearance of a mass term and a quadratic term in the energy-momentum tensor of the scalar-gauge field, arising from the extrinsic curvature terms of the projected Einstein tensor. These terms can be interpreted as a constraint in order to maintain conformal invariance. By considering the dilaton field and Higgs field on equal footing on small scales, there will be no singular behavior, when $\omega\rightarrow 0$ and one can deduce constraints to maintain regularity of the action. Our conjecture is that $\omega$, alias warp factor, has a dual meaning. At very early times, when $\omega \rightarrow 0$, it describes the small-distance limit, while at later times it is a warp (or scale) factor that determines the dynamical evolution of the universe. We also present a numerical solution of the model and calculate the (time-dependent) trace-anomaly. The solution depends on the mass ratio of the scalar and gauge fields, the parameters of the model and the vortex charge $n$.
Keywords
conformal invariance; brane world models; U(1) scalar-gauge field; dilaton field
Subject
Physical Sciences, Particle and Field Physics
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