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We consider the brane Kantowski-Sachs universe when bulk space is five dimensional anti-de Sitter obeying a linear equation of state of the form $p=(\gamma -1)\rho +p_{0}$, where $ \gamma,\:p_{0}$ are a parameters. In this framework we…
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