Brane Gas Inflation
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-07 v1 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We consider the brane gas picture of the early universe. At later stages, when there are no winding modes and the background is free to expand, we show that a moving 3-brane, which we identify with our universe, can inflate even though it is radiation-dominated. The crucial ingredients for successful inflation are the coupling to the dilaton and the equation of state of the bulk. If we suppose the brane initially forms in a collision of higher-dimensional branes, then the spectrum of primordial density fluctuations naturally has a thermal origin.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0109207,
title = {Brane Gas Inflation},
author = {M. F. Parry and D. A. Steer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0109207},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure