Stability of six-dimensional hyperstring braneworlds

TL;DR

This paper investigates the stability and fine-tuning requirements of a six-dimensional warped braneworld model with a vortex-like brane, revealing severe constraints on its structure and implications for modeling our universe.

Contribution

It provides a detailed numerical analysis of parameter conditions for finite-volume extra dimensions and examines the stability of vortex solutions in a six-dimensional warped spacetime.

Findings

Fine-tuning is necessary to avoid singularities.

Higgs and gauge field perturbations are suppressed, indicating stability.

Warped spacetime around the vortex is highly constrained.

Abstract

We study a six-dimensional braneworld model with infinite warped extra dimensions in the case where the four-dimensional brane is described by a topological vortex of a U(1) symmetry-breaking Abelian Higgs model in presence of a negative cosmological constant. A detailed analysis of the microscopic parameters leading to a finite volume space-time in the extra dimensions is numerically performed. As previously shown, we find that a fine-tuning is required to avoid any kind of singularity on the brane. We then discuss the stability of the vortex by investigating the scalar part of the gauge-invariant perturbations around this fine-tuned configuration. It is found that the hyperstring forming Higgs and gauge fields, as well as the background metric warp factors, cannot be perturbed at all, whereas transverse modes can be considered stable. The warped space-time structure that is imposed around the vortex thus appears severely constrained and cannot generically support nonempty universe models. The genericness of our conclusions is discussed; this will shed some light on the possibility of describing our space-time as a general six-dimensional warped braneworld.