Inflation and dark energy arising from geometrical tachyons
- Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Chhatnag Road, Jhusi, Allahabad-211019 (India)
- Department of Physics, Jamia Millia, New Delhi-110025 (India)
- Department of Physics, Gunma National College of Technology, Gunma 371-8530 (Japan)
We study the motion of a Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield D3-brane in the NS5-brane ring background. The radion field becomes tachyonic in this geometrical setup. We investigate the potential of this geometrical tachyon in the cosmological scenario for inflation as well as dark energy. We evaluate the spectra of scalar and tensor perturbations generated during tachyon inflation and show that this model is compatible with recent observations of cosmic microwave background due to an extra freedom of the number of NS5-branes. It is not possible to explain the origin of both inflation and dark energy by using a single tachyon field, since the energy density at the potential minimum is not negligibly small because of the amplitude of scalar perturbations set by cosmic microwave background anisotropies. However, the geometrical tachyon can account for dark energy when the number of NS5-branes is large, provided that inflation is realized by another scalar field.
- OSTI ID:
- 20795707
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 73, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.023515; (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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