Eur. Phys. J. C (2006) 47: 857-860
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2006-02551-5

Theoretical Physics

Localizing gravity in extra dimensions

¹ Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, 6 Tamarashvili St., Tbilisi, 0177, Georgia
² Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
³ High Energy Physics Division, Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 64, 00014, Helsinki, Finland

^* e-mail: kobakhid@physics.unc.edu

Received: 25 January 2006
Published online: 14 July 2006

Abstract

We argue that a certain distribution of matter in higher dimensions can provide the correct behavior of gravity in four dimensions. Some explicit examples illustrating the idea are considered.