Massive Gravity on a Non-extremal Brane

Abstract

We consider a brane world scenario which arises as the near-horizon region of a non-extremal D5-brane. There is a quasi-localized massive graviton mode, as well as harmonic modes of higher mass which are bound to the brane to a lesser degree. Lorentz invariance is slightly broken, which may have observable effects due to the leakage of the metastable graviton states into the bulk. Unlike a brane world arising from an extremal D5-brane, there is no mass gap. We also find that a brane world arising from a non-extremal M5/M5-brane intersection has the same graviton dynamics as that of a non-extremal D5-brane. This is evidence that a previously conjectured duality relation between the dual quantum field theories of each p-brane background may hold away from extremality.