par Prof. Kellogg STELLE (Imperial College, London & IHES)

Europe/Paris
Amphithéâtre Léon Motchane (IHES)

Amphithéâtre Léon Motchane

IHES

Le Bois Marie 35, route de Chartres 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette
Description
The construction of braneworlds localizing massless gravity on subsurfaces of spacetimes with infinite transverse spaces has remained an open problem. There have even been some "no-go" theorems claiming to show that such constructions are not possible. The talk will present a resolution of this problem simply based upon a hyperbolic solution of type IIA theory with a superposed Neveu-Schwarz 5-brane. Gravity is bound to the brane surface owing to the existence of a single normalizable bound state of the transverse space Laplacian.
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