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A four-dimensional {\Lambda}CDM-type cosmological model induced from higher dimensions using a kinematical constraint

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2013-10-24 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

A class of cosmological solutions of higher dimensional Einstein field equations with the energy-momentum tensor of a homogeneous, isotropic fluid as the source are considered with an anisotropic metric that includes the direct sum of a 3-dimensional (physical, flat) external space metric and an n-dimensional (compact, flat) internal space metric. A simple kinematical constraint is postulated that correlates the expansion rates of the external and internal spaces in terms of a real parameter {\lambda}. A specific solution for which both the external and internal spaces expand at different rates is given analytically for n=3. Assuming that the internal dimensions were at Planck length scales when the external space starts with a Big Bang (t=0), they expand only 1.49 times and stay at Planck length scales even in the present age of the universe (13.7 Gyr). The effective four dimensional universe would exhibit a behavior consistent with our current understanding of the observed universe. It would start in a stiff fluid dominated phase and evolve through radiation dominated and pressureless matter dominated phases, eventually going into a de Sitter phase at late times.

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@article{arxiv.1201.4545,
  title  = {A four-dimensional {\Lambda}CDM-type cosmological model induced from higher dimensions using a kinematical constraint},
  author = {Ozgur Akarsu and Tekin Dereli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.4545},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

12 pages, 8 figures; matches the version published in General Relativity and Gravitation

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