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关于DGP引力的新观点

A New Perspective on DGP Gravity

Ruth Gregory, Nemanja Kaloper, Robert C. Myers, Antonio Padilla

摘要:

我们研究膜诱导引力余维1膜,又名DGP引力,作为一个理论的五维引力包含一定的类四维膜。从这个角度来看,该模型患有许多以前未被注意到的疾病。通过推广从Minkowski到Schwarzschild的5D几何,我们发现当体质量足够大时,膜在有限半径处会遇到压力奇点。此外,在自加速分支上,五维能量从下面是无界的,这意味着自加速背景是不稳定的。即使在一个空的闵可夫斯基体中,标准的欧几里德技术也表明自加速膜的自发成核是不受抑制的。如果是这样的话,量子效应将极大地改变关于这个理论的任何经典直觉。我们还注意到,除非被认为是Z_2-orbifold边界,自加速膜对应于“虫洞”的配置,这引入了通常的问题与虫洞有关的问题。总之,这些病理提出了一个严重的挑战,任何建议的紫外线完成的DGP模型必须克服。

英文摘要:

We examine brane induced gravity on codimension-1 branes, a.k.a DGP gravity, as a theory of five-dimensional gravity containing a certain class four-dimensional branes. From this perspective, the model suffers from a number of pathologies which went unnoticed before. By generalizing the 5D geometry from Minkowski to Schwarzschild, we find that when the bulk mass is large enough, the brane hits a pressure singularity at finite radius. Further, on the self-accelerating branch, the five-dimensional energy is unbounded from below, implying that the self-accelerating backgrounds are unstable. Even in an empty Minkowski bulk, standard Euclidean techniques suggest that the spontaneous nucleation of self-accelerating branes is unsuppressed. If so, quantum effects will strongly modify any classical intuition about the theory. We also note that unless considered as Z_2-orbifold boundaries, self-accelerating branes correspond to `wormhole' configurations, which introduces the usual problematic issues associated with wormholes. Altogether these pathologies present a serious challenge that any proposed UV completion of the DGP model must overcome.

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