Fundamental constants in singularity-free five-dimensional Kaluza-Klein cosmological model (Q1891464)

The author considers a five-dimensional spacetime with geometry of the open Robertson-Walker model times a circle of time-dependent radius. The spacetime is filled with a complex massless scalar field (non-minimally coupled to the curvature scalar), an electromagnetic field and a perfect fluid. The fields and the fluid are spatially homogeneous (i.e., only time-dependent) and the Maxwell field has no components in the extra dimension. Under a number of simplifying assumptions a cosmological solution for the two cosmic scale factors is found having no singularities for positive times. The radius of the internal circle tends to a positive constant at late times. Computing quantum one-loop corrections to the effective action for the scalar field the author expresses the effective gravitational and cosmological constants as functions of the scale factors. For the special cosmological solution the effective gravitational constant quickly tends to a constant while the effective cosmological constant vanishes.