Brane-Localized Gravity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789812565617)

This 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is provided for both students and workers in the field, with a significant amount of the material being previously unpublished.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 issues not ordinarily treated in the brane-world literature, such as the completeness of tensor gravitational fluctuation modes, the causality of brane-world propagators, and the status of the massless graviton fluctuation mode in brane worlds in which it is not normalizable.

Author: Philip David Mannheim
ISBN-10: 9812565612
ISBN-13: 9789812565617
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 10/20/2005
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.66lbs
Size: 10.04h x 6.74w x 1.00d