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Title: Cosmological evolution of regularized branes in 6D warped flux compactifications

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
 [1];  [2]
  1. Arnold-Sommerfeld-Center for Theoretical Physics, Department fuer Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Theresienstr. 37, D-80333, Munich (Germany)
  2. Laboratoire APC, Batiment Condorcet, 10, Rue Alice Domon et Leonie Duquet, 75205 Paris Cedex 13 (France)

We study the cosmological evolution of extended branes in 6D warped flux compactification models. The branes are endowed with the three ordinary spatial dimensions, which are assumed to be homogeneous and isotropic, as well as an internal extra dimension compactified on a circle. We embed these codimension 1 branes in a static bulk 6D spacetime, whose geometry is a solution of 6D Einstein-Maxwell or Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theories, corresponding to a warped flux compactification. The brane matter consists of a complex scalar field which is coupled to the bulk U(1) gauge field. In both models, we show that there is critical point which the brane cannot cross as it moves in the bulk. We study the cosmological behavior, especially when the brane approaches this critical point or one of the two conical singularities. In the present setup where the bulk geometry is fixed, we find that the brane cosmology does not coincide with the standard one in the low-energy limit.

OSTI ID:
21032478
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 76, Issue 8; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.084031; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English