Lensed Density Perturbations in Braneworlds: An Alternative to Perturbations from Inflation

Details Lensed Density Perturbations in Braneworlds: An Alternative to Perturbations from Inflation Lensed Density Perturbations in Braneworlds: An Alternative to Perturbations from Inflation

2002-02-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0202066v1

Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 103505

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

27 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.67.103505

We consider a scenario in which our observable universe is a 3-dimensional surface (3-brane) living in extra dimensions with a warped geometry. We show that ``lensed'' density perturbations from other branes serve as possible seeds for structure formation on our observable brane (without inflation), and, in addition, provide constraints on braneworld scenarios with warped bulk geometry. Due to the warped bulk metric, any perturbation generated on one brane (or in the bulk matter) appears to an observer on a second brane to have a significantly different amplitude. We analyze lensed perturbations in the Randall-Sundrum type scenarios and the ``shortcut metric'' scenarios. For Lorentz violating metrics in the bulk, we find the attractive possibility that large density fluctuations that are causally produced elsewhere can lead to small density fluctuations on our brane on superhorizon (acausal) length scales, as required by structure formation. Our most interesting result is that the ``shortcut metrics'' in which geodesics traverse the extra dimensions provide an alternative to inflation with two important features: a possible solution to the horizon problem and a mechanism to generate perturbations necessary for structure formation.

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