Infinitely Large New Dimensions

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We construct intersecting brane configurations in anit–de Sitter (AdS) space which localize gravity to the intersection region, generalizing the trapping of gravity to any number n of infinite extra dimensions. Since the 4D Planck scale MPl is determined by the fundamental Planck scale M* and the AdS radius L via the familiar relation MPl2∼M*2+nLn, we get two kinds of theories with TeV scale quantum gravity and submillimeter deviations from Newton's law. With M*∼TeV and L∼submillimeter, we recover the phenomenology of theories with large extra dimensions. Alternatively, if M*∼L−1∼MPl, and our 3-brane is at a distance of ∼100MPl−1 from the intersection, we obtain a theory with an exponential determination of the weak/Planck hierarchy.
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