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Wrapped Branes and Compact Extra Dimensions in Cosmology

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v3 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present a cosmological model in 1+m+p dimensions, where in m-dimensional space there are uniformly distributed p-branes wrapping over the extra p-dimensions. We find that during cosmological evolution m-dimensional space expands with the exact power-law corresponding to pressureless matter while the extra p-dimensions contract. Adding matter, we also obtain solutions having the same property. We show that this might explain in a natural way why the extra dimensions are small compared to the observed three spatial directions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0301031,
  title  = {Wrapped Branes and Compact Extra Dimensions in Cosmology},
  author = {Ali Kaya and Tonguc Rador},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0301031},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, RevTex4, added a figure, section IV rewritten, conclusions unaltered

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