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Dark energy cosmologies for codimension-two branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-05 v1

Abstract

A six-dimensional universe with two branes in the "football-shaped" geometry leads to an almost realistic cosmology. We describe a family of exact solutions with time dependent characteristic size of internal space. After a short inflationary period the late cosmology is either of quintessence type or turns to a radiation dominated Friedmann universe where the cosmological constant appears as a free integration constant of the solution. The radiation dominated universe with relativistic fermions is analyzed in detail, including its dimensional reduction.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0501049,
  title  = {Dark energy cosmologies for codimension-two branes},
  author = {Jan-Markus Schwindt and Christof Wetterich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0501049},
  year   = {2010}
}

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18 pages

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