Gravitational excitons - fluctuating particles from extra dimensions

Günther, Uwe; Zhuk, Alexander

Gravitational excitons - fluctuating particles from extra dimensions

Günther, U.; Zhuk, A.

We show that for warped product space-times the conformal (geometric moduli) excitations of the internal compactified factor spaces should be observable as massive scalar fields in the external space-time. These scalar fields (gravitational excitons) describe weakly interacting particles and can be considered as dark matter component. On the other hand, they provide possible values for the effective cosmological constant.

Keywords: String theory; moduli stabilization; scalar-tensor theory; higher dimensional gravity; dimensional reduction; dark matter

Contribution to external collection
W. Janke, A. Pelster, H.-J.Schmidt, M. Bachmann: Fluctuating paths and fields. Dedicated to Hagen Kleinert on the occasion of his 60th birthday., Singapore: World Scientific, 2001, 981-02-4648-X, 721-728

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