Spontaneous decompactification

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2004-04-28

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0404220v2

Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 046005

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

27 pages, 5 figures, harvmac. v2: refs added, minor notation changes

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.70.046005

Positive vacuum energy together with extra dimensions of space imply that our four-dimensional Universe is unstable, generically to decompactification of the extra dimensions. Either quantum tunneling or thermal fluctuations carry one past a barrier into the decompactifying regime. We give an overview of this process, and examine the subsequent expansion into the higher- dimensional geometry. This is governed by certain fixed-point solutions of the evolution equations, which are studied for both positive and negative spatial curvature. In the case where there is a higher-dimensional cosmological constant, we also outline a possible mechanism for compactification to a four-dimensional de Sitter cosmology.

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