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Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 586–589 (2000)

Infinitely Large New Dimensions

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Nima Arkani-Hamed1,2, Savas Dimopoulos3, Gia Dvali4, and Nemanja Kaloper3
1Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94530
2Theory Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94530
3Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
4Department of Physics, New York University, New York, New York 10003 and ICTP, Trieste, Italy

Received 29 July 1999; published in the issue dated 24 January 2000

We construct intersecting brane configurations in anit–de Sitter (AdS) space which localize gravity to the intersection region, generalizing the trapping of gravity to any number n of infinite extra dimensions. Since the 4D Planck scale MPl is determined by the fundamental Planck scale M* and the AdS radius L via the familiar relation MPl2M*2+nLn, we get two kinds of theories with TeV scale quantum gravity and submillimeter deviations from Newton's law. With M*TeV and Lsubmillimeter, we recover the phenomenology of theories with large extra dimensions. Alternatively, if M*L-1MPl, and our 3-brane is at a distance of 100MPl-1 from the intersection, we obtain a theory with an exponential determination of the weak/Planck hierarchy.

© 2000 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.586
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.586
PACS:
11.10.Kk, 04.50.+h, 11.25.Mj