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Kaluza-Klein bubble like structure and celestial sphere in inflationary universe

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v3

Abstract

We consider five dimensional deSitter spacetimes with a deficit angle due to the presence of a closed 2-brane and identify one dimension as an extra dimension. From the four dimensional viewpoint we can see that the spacetime has a structure similar to a Kaluza-Klein bubble of nothing, that is, four dimensional spacetime ends at the 2-brane. Since a spatial section of the full deSitter spacetime has the topology of a sphere, the boundary surface surrounds the remaining four dimensional spacetime, and can be considered as the celestial sphere. After the spacetime is created from nothing via an instanton which we describe, some four dimensional observers in it see the celestial sphere falling down, and will be in contact with a 2-brane attached on it.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0406181,
  title  = {Kaluza-Klein bubble like structure and celestial sphere in inflationary universe},
  author = {Tetsuya Shiromizu and Shinya Tomizawa and Yuki Uchida and Shinji Mukohyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0406181},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5pages, 4figures, to be published in GRG