Kaluza-Klein bubble like structure and celestial sphere in the inflationary universe (Q2583258)

The authors study a spacetime with a closed 2-brane in a five dimensional theory admitting a positive cosmological constant. It is locally a de Sitter spacetime with a deficit angle due to 2-brane. It is found that if the deficit angle exceeds \(\pi\) then the spacetime has a convex lens-like shape with upper and lower surfaces identified and all observers are confined inside the convex lens-like region.