FAROOK RAHAMAN*, SUBENOY CHAKRABORTY and MEHEDI KALAM*

Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700 032, India

* Permanent Address: Khodar Bazar, Baruipur, 24 Parganas (South), West Bengal 743 302, India

Email: jumath@cal.vsnl.net.in

Abstract.

The gravitational field of a higher dimensional global monopole in the context of Brans-Dicke theory of gravity is investigated. The space time metric and the scalar field generated by a global monopole are obtained using the weak field approximation. Finally, the geodesic of a test particle due to the gravitational field of the monopole is studied.

Keywords:  Global monopole; Brans--Dicke theory; higher dimension.

Pacs Nos.  04.20.Jb; 98.80.Bp; 04.50.+h