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Volume Stabilization and Acceleration in Brane Gas Cosmology

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We investigate toy cosmological models in (1+m+p)-dimensions with gas of p-branes wrapping over p-compact dimensions. In addition to winding modes, we consider the effects of momentum modes corresponding to small vibrations of branes and find that the extra dimensions are dynamically stabilized while the others expand. Adding matter, the compact volume may grow slowly depending on the equation of state. We also obtain solutions with winding and momentum modes where the observed space undergoes accelerated expansion.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0405099,
  title  = {Volume Stabilization and Acceleration in Brane Gas Cosmology},
  author = {Ali Kaya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0405099},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

20 pages, 3 figures, v2: comments and references added, to appear in JCAP

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