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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 a(τ)a(\tau) and the extra-dimensional one, b(τ)b(\tau), grow exponentially at large times, but b(τ)b(\tau) grows slowly enough to admit variations of the effective gravitational constant GG 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

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