Cosmology and fermion confinement in a scalar-field-generated domain wall brane in five dimensions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Slatyer, Tracy R ^a   Volkas, Raymond R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brane dynamics in gauge theories; Field theories in higher dimensions; Large extra dimensions; Solitons monopoles and instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247884438     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/04/062     Document Type: Article

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