arXiv:hep-th/0204235·v1·High Energy Physics — Theory
Vector field localization and negative tension branes
Massimo Giovannini (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Lausanne University)🇨🇭
Abstract
It is shown that negative tension branes in higher dimensions may lead to an effective lower dimensional theory where the gauge-invariant vector fields associated with the fluctuations of the metric are always massless and localized on the brane. Explicit five-dimensional examples of this phenomenon are provided. Furthermore, it is shown that higher dimensional gauge fields can also be localized on these configurations with the zero mode separated from the massive tower by a gap.
Comments: 16 pages, LaTeX style; to appear in Phys. Rev. D