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Cosmic Acceleration in Massive Half-Maximal Supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-05 v1 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider massive half-maximal supergravity in (d+3) dimensions and compactify it on a symmetric three space. We find that the static configurations of Minkowski X S^3, obtained by balancing the positive scalar potential for the dilaton and the flux of a three-form through the three-sphere, are unstable. The resulting cosmological evolution breaks supersymmetry and leads to an accelerated expansion in d dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0411208,
  title  = {Cosmic Acceleration in Massive Half-Maximal Supergravity},
  author = {Philippe Brax and Carsten van de Bruck and Anne-Christine Davis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0411208},
  year   = {2010}
}

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11 pages, 3 figures