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Consistent Linearized Gravity in Brane Backgrounds

I. Ya. Aref'eva, M. G. Ivanov, W. Mueck, K. S. Viswanathan, I. V. Volovich

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0004114

Abstract

A globally consistent treatment of linearized gravity in the Randall-Sundrum background with matter on the brane is formulated. Using a novel gauge, in which the transverse components of the metric are non-vanishing, the brane is kept straight. We analyze the gauge symmetries and identify the physical degrees of freedom of gravity. Our results underline the necessity for non-gravitational confinement of matter to the brane.

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