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级联宇宙学

Cascading Cosmology

Nishant Agarwal, Rachel Bean, Justin Khoury, Mark Trodden

摘要:

我们为6D级联引力膜世界模型开发了一个完全协变的、适定的5D有效作用量,并利用它来研究宇宙学解。我们通过6D退耦极限得到这种有效作用量,其中一个额外的标量度模式π,称为膜弯曲模式,决定了体膜引力相互作用。这样得到的5D作用量从第六维继承了一个额外的π自相互作用动力学项。我们计算适当的边界项,以补充5D的行动,从而推导出完全协变结条件和5D爱因斯坦场方程。利用这些结果,我们导出了在静态块体中运动的3-膜上诱导的宇宙演化。我们研究的强耦合和弱耦合制度分析在这个静态的ananterior,并执行一个完整的数值分析,我们的解决方案。虽然级联模型可以产生一个加速解,其中π场在后期开始占主导地位,但临界奇点的存在阻止了π场完全占主导地位。我们的研究结果开辟了一个有趣的可能性,即在一个时间依赖的散装更一般的处理退化,或考虑到有限的膜厚度的影响,可能会导致一个加速宇宙没有宇宙学常数。

英文摘要:

We develop a fully covariant, well-posed 5D effective action for the 6D cascading gravity brane-world model, and use this to study cosmological solutions. We obtain this effective action through the 6D decoupling limit, in which an additional scalar degree mode, π, called the brane-bending mode, determines the bulk-brane gravitational interaction. The 5D action obtained this way inherits from the sixth dimension an extra πself-interaction kinetic term. We compute appropriate boundary terms, to supplement the 5D action, and hence derive fully covariant junction conditions and the 5D Einstein field equations. Using these, we derive the cosmological evolution induced on a 3-brane moving in a static bulk. We study the strong- and weak-coupling regimes analytically in this static ansatz, and perform a complete numerical analysis of our solution. Although the cascading model can generate an accelerating solution in which the πfield comes to dominate at late times, the presence of a critical singularity prevents the πfield from dominating entirely. Our results open up the interesting possibility that a more general treatment of degravitation in a time-dependent bulk, or taking into account finite brane-thickness effects, may lead to an accelerating universe without a cosmological constant.

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