The cosmological constant and oscillating metrics

Details The cosmological constant and oscillating metrics The cosmological constant and oscillating metrics

2001-07-05

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0107042v4

JHEP 0210 (2002) 052

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

15 pages, uses JHEP, no figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2002/10/052

The presence of a cosmological constant, Lambda, in an action with higher powers of the curvature can produce rapidly oscillating metrics. We develop a perturbative approach for generating periodic solutions to the non-linear field equations for such actions based on a small amplitude expansion. We find that these oscillations have an amplitude proportional to \sqrt{\Lambda} and a frequency of order the Planck mass. In a 4+1 dimensional scenario, a family of metrics exists that are periodic in the extra dimension and are parameterized by an effective four-dimensional cosmological constant which drives a rapid oscillation.

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