Brane gas-driven bulk expansion as a precursor stage to brane inflation

Details Brane gas-driven bulk expansion as a precursor stage to brane inflation Brane gas-driven bulk expansion as a precursor stage to brane inflation

2005-12-05

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0512056v2

Phys.Rev.Lett. 96 (2006) 161301

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

5 pages, no figures, same as published one

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.161301

We propose a new way of obtaining slow-roll inflation in the context of higher dimensional models motivated by string and M theory. In our model, all extra spatial dimensions are orbifolded. The initial conditions are taken to be a hot dense bulk brane gas which drives an initial phase of isotropic bulk expansion. This phase ends when a weak potential between the orbifold fixed planes begins to dominate. For a wide class of potentials, a period during which the bulk dimensions decrease sufficiently slowly to lead to slow-roll inflation of the three dimensions parallel to the orbifold fixed planes will result. Once the separation between the orbifold fixed planes becomes of the string scale, a repulsive potential due to string effects takes over and leads to a stabilization of the radion modes. The conversion of bulk branes into radiation during the phase of bulk contraction leads to reheating.

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