Higher-dimensional models in gravitational theories of quartic Lagrangians

DOI10.1063/1.532041zbMath0876.53064arXivgr-qc/9905042OpenAlexW1972739422MaRDI QIDQ4345167

Harry Varvoglis, Demetrios B. Papadopoulos, Apostolos Kuiroukidis, Kostas Kleidis

Publication date: 17 July 1997

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Ten-dimensional models, arising from a gravitational action which includes terms up to the fourth order in curvature tensor, are discussed. The spacetime consists of one timelike dimension and two maximally symmetric subspaces, filled with matter in the form of an anisotropic fluid. Numerical integration of the cosmological field equations indicates that exponential, as well as power law, solutions are possible. We carry out a dynamical study of the results in the H_{ext} - H_{int} plane and confirm the existence of "attractors" in the evolution of the Universe. Those attracting points correspond to "extended De Sitter" spacetimes, in which the external space exhibits inflationary expansion, while the internal one contracts.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9905042

zbMATH Keywords

numerical integrationanisotropic fluidevolution of the universenonlinear Lagrangian theory of gravityten-dimensional model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-04)

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