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Can Geodesics in Extra Dimensions Solve the Cosmological Horizon Problem?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-09-06 v2 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We demonstrate a non-inflationary solution to the cosmological horizon problem in scenarios in which our observable universe is confined to three spatial dimensions (a three-brane) embedded in a higher dimensional space. A signal traveling along an extra-dimensional null geodesic may leave our three-brane, travel into the extra dimensions, and subsequently return to a different place on our three-brane in a shorter time than the time a signal confined to our three-brane would take. Hence, these geodesics may connect distant points which would otherwise be ``outside'' the four dimensional horizon (points not in causal contact with one another).

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9910235,
  title  = {Can Geodesics in Extra Dimensions Solve the Cosmological Horizon Problem?},
  author = {Daniel J. H. Chung and Katherine Freese},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9910235},
  year   = {2016}
}

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9 pages, 2 figures

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