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Thick-Brane Cosmology

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-18 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We search for time-dependent solutions for the 5-dimensional system of a scalar field canonically coupled to gravity. Time-independent and time-dependent scalar field configurations with the most general homogeneous and isotropic 4D metric are considered. For the case of time-independent scalar field, the time evolution of the scale factor is obtained for different values of the spatial curvature k=0,±1k=0,\pm 1. In the case of time-dependent scalar field, two classes of solutions are discussed and an extension of the superpotential formalism is proposed.

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@article{arxiv.1312.3576,
  title  = {Thick-Brane Cosmology},
  author = {Aqeel Ahmed and Bohdan Grzadkowski and Jose Wudka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.3576},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

19 pages and 8 figures, v2: version published in JHEP

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