Selfgravitating $SU(5)$ Higgs domain walls as a braneworlds

Abstract: Five-dimensional domain walls in gauged $SU(5)$ generate a position-dependent symmetry breaking pattern along the additional dimension. We analize the perturbative stability and the 4D spectrum of these walls in the self-gravitating case, in terms of diffeomorphism- and Lie algebra gauge-invariant field fluctuations. We show that tachyonic modes are absent, ensuring perturbative stability. As expected, gravitational tensor and vector fluctuations behave like its counterparts in the standard $Z_2$ domain walls. All the Lie algebra valued fluctuations exhibit towers of 4D massive modes which propagate in the bulk, with a continuous spectrum starting from zero. All the would-be 4D Nambu-Goldstone fields, which are gravitationally trapped in the case of a global symmetry, are non-trivially absent. However we find no localizable 4D gauge bosons, either massless or massive. Instead, quasi-localizable discrete 4D massive modes for the gauge field fluctuations are found, along the spontaneously broken directions.