Smooth thick braneworlds and the Gibbons-Kallosh-Linde no-go theorem


Abstract in English

After working out the so called braneworld sum rules formalism in order to encompass Gauss-Bonnet terms, the generation of thick branes is proposed, even with a periodic extra dimension, what circumvents the Gibbons-Kallosh-Linde no-go theorem in this context.

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