Codimension-2 Branes in Supergravity

Louca, Andrew

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dc.contributor.advisor	Burgess, Cliff	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Louca, Andrew	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2014-06-18T16:46:23Z	-
dc.date.available	2014-06-18T16:46:23Z	-
dc.date.created	2011-06-01	en_US
dc.date.issued	2010	en_US
dc.identifier.other	opendissertations/4387	en_US
dc.identifier.other	5408	en_US
dc.identifier.other	2042069	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11375/9247	-
dc.description.abstract	<p>The goal of this thesis is to study the back-reaction of codimension-2 branes in chiral gauged supergravity for solutions which are consistent with axial symmetry in the bulk directions and maximal symmetry in the spatial directions of the brane (FRW-like branes). The mathematics involved in this is somewhat cumbersome so as a first step, which can later be used as a check, we study solutions which are consistent with axial symmetry in the bulk and maximally symmetric in all brane directions. In order to analyze the brane back-reaction we compute a set of equations relating the bulk fields at the brane position to the brane properties, known as junction conditions. These junction conditions combined with the low-energy on-brane effective action (which is also derived) provide the complete description of the brane back-reaction. This formalism is then applied to two examples and generalized for the case of FRW-like branes.</p>	en_US
dc.subject	Physics	en_US
dc.subject	Physics	en_US
dc.title	Codimension-2 Branes in Supergravity	en_US
dc.type	thesis	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Physics	en_US
dc.description.degree	Master of Science (MS)	en_US
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