An Approach to Yukawa's Elementary Domain Based on $\mbox{AdS}_5$ Spacetime

Abstract

The field equations of elementary domains proposed by Yukawa in 1968 are studied from the viewpoint of particle embedded $\mbox{AdS}_5$ spacetime with warp factor. The fifth dimension in $\mbox{AdS}_5$ is known to produce the branes associated with the energy hierarchy as a effect of the warp factor. The particles embedded in this spacetime behave as those in an infinite square well potential due to the boundary conditions in the fifth dimension. Then the superposition of the fields for those particles leads to a Yukawa's domain type of difference equation under some conditions. As a new perspective on AdS spacetime, we investigate the mechanisms that lie between the domain type of field equations in this sense and the spacetime with a compact extra dimension in detail.