Boom and Bust Inflation: a Graceful Exit via Compact Extra Dimensions

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2008-07-03

arxiv.org/abs/0807.0457v1

Phys.Rev.Lett.101:221302,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

11 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.221302

A model of inflation is proposed in which compact extra dimensions allow a graceful exit without recourse to flat potentials or super-Planckian field values. Though bubbles of true vacuum are too sparse to uniformly reheat the Universe by colliding with each other, a compact dimension enables a single bubble to uniformly reheat by colliding with itself. This mechanism, which generates an approximately scale invariant perturbation spectrum, requires that inflation be driven by a bulk field, that vacuum decay be slow, and that the extra dimension be at least a hundred times larger than the false vacuum Hubble length.

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