# Self-tuning flat domain walls in 5D gravity and string theory

@article{Kachru2000SelftuningFD,
title={Self-tuning flat domain walls in 5D gravity and string theory},
author={S. Kachru and M. Schulz and E. Silverstein},
journal={Physical Review D},
year={2000},
volume={62},
pages={045021}
}
• Published 2000
• Physics
• Physical Review D
We present Poincare-invariant domain wall (''three-brane'') solutions to some five-dimensional effective theories which can arise naturally in string theory. In particular, we find theories where Poincare-invariant solutions exist for arbitrary values of the brane tension, for certain restricted forms of the bulk interactions. We describe examples in string theory where it would be natural for the quantum corrections to the tension of the brane (arising from quantum fluctuations of modes with… Expand
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