Spectrum from the warped compactifications with the de Sitter universe

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the spectrum and stability of warped compactifications with de Sitter spacetime, revealing a massless zero mode, a mass gap, and instability due to tachyonic scalar modes in higher-dimensional gravity models.

Contribution

It constructs a finite-volume brane world model with warped compactifications and investigates the tensor and scalar perturbations, identifying stability conditions and instabilities.

Findings

Existence of a massless zero mode in tensor perturbations

Presence of a mass gap separating zero and massive modes

Model exhibits instability due to a universal tachyonic bound state

Abstract

We discuss the spectrum of the tensor metric perturbations and the stability of warped compactifications with the de Sitter spacetime in the higher-dimensional gravity. The spacetime structure is given in terms of the warped product of the non-compact direction, the spherical internal dimensions and the four-dimensional de Sitter spacetime. To realize a finite bulk volume, we construct the brane world model, using the cut-copy-paste method. Then, we compactify the spherical directions on the brane. In any case, we show the existence of the massless zero mode and the mass gap of it with massive Kaluza-Klein modes. Although the brane involves the spherical dimensions, no light massive mode is excited. We also investigate the scalar perturbations, and show that the model is unstable due to the existence of a tachyonic bound state, which seems to have the universal negative mass square, irrespective of the number of spacetime dimensions.