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Dilaton Stabilization in (A)dS Spacetime with Compactified Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We investigate dilaton stabilization in a higher-dimensional theory. The background geometry is based on an eleven-dimensional Kaluza-Klein/supergravity model, which is assumed to be a product of four-dimensional de Sitter (dS_4) spacetime and a seven sphere. The dilaton potential has a local minimum resulting from contributions of the cosmological constant, the curvature of the internal spacetime and quantum effects of the background scalar, vector, spinor, and tensor fields. The dilaton settles down to the local minimum, and the scale of the extra dimensions eventually become time independent. Our four-dimensional universe evolves from dS_4 into AdS_4 after stabilization of the extra dimension.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0308170,
  title  = {Dilaton Stabilization in (A)dS Spacetime with Compactified Dimensions},
  author = {Kunihito Uzawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0308170},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

43 pages, 12 figures, PTPTeX. Accepted for publication in Progress of Theoretical Physics