Graceful entrance to braneworld inflation
- Astronomy Unit, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, London E1 4NS (United Kingdom)
Positively-curved, oscillatory universes have recently been shown to have important consequences for the preinflationary dynamics of the early universe. In particular, they may allow a self-interacting scalar field to climb up its potential during a very large number of these cycles. The cycles are naturally broken when the potential reaches a critical value and the universe begins to inflate, thereby providing a 'graceful entrance' to early universe inflation. We study the dynamics of this behavior within the context of braneworld scenarios which exhibit a bounce from a collapsing phase to an expanding one. The dynamics can be understood by studying a general class of braneworld models that are sourced by a scalar field with a constant potential. Within this context, we determine the conditions a given model must satisfy for a graceful entrance to be possible in principle. We consider the bouncing braneworld model proposed by Shtanov and Sahni and show that it exhibits the features needed to realise a graceful entrance to inflation for a wide region of parameter space.
- OSTI ID:
- 20782879
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 73, Issue 8; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.083508; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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