Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2003-08-11
Phys.Lett. B578 (2004) 269-275
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
12 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B
Scientific paper
We study the evolution of gravitational waves(GWs) after inflation in a brane-world cosmology embedded in five-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime. Contrary to the standard four-dimensional results, the GWs at the high-energy regime in brane-world model suffer from the effects of the non-standard cosmological expansion and the excitation of the Kaluza-Klein modes(KK-modes), which can affect the amplitude of stochastic gravitational wave background significantly. To investigate these two high-energy effects quantitatively, we numerically solve the wave equation of the GWs in the radiation dominated epoch at relatively low-energy scales. We show that the resultant GWs is suppressed by the excitation of the KK modes. The created KK modes are rather soft and escape away from the brane to the bulk gravitational field. The results are also compared to the semi-analytic prediction from the low-energy approximation and the evolved amplitude of GWs on the brane reasonably matches the numerical simulations.
Hiramatsu Takashi
Koyama Kazuya
Taruya Atsushi
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