Cosmologies from nonlinear multidimensional gravity with acceleration and slowly varying G
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
We consider multidimensional gravity with a Lagrangian containing the Ricci tensor squared and the Kretschmann invariant. In a Kaluza-Klein approach with a single compact extra space of arbitrary dimension, with the aid of a slow-change approximation (as compared with the Planck scale), we build a class of spatially flat cosmological models in which both the observed scale factor and the extra-dimensional one, , grow exponentially at large times, but grows slowly enough to admit variations of the effective gravitational constant within observational limits. Such models predict a drastic change in the physical laws of our Universe in the remote future due to further growth of the extra dimensions.
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@article{arxiv.0804.0973,
title = {Cosmologies from nonlinear multidimensional gravity with acceleration and slowly varying G},
author = {K. A. Bronnikov and S. A. Kononogov and V. N. Melnikov and S. G. Rubin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.0973},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, to be published in Grav. Cosmol