Emergent universe in the brane-world scenario (Q928564)

A model of an emergent universe is obtained in a brane world. It is a model universe which has no singularity, is ever-existing and has an almost static behaviour in the infinite past \((t\to -\infty)\). In our model, the 5D bulk energy is in the form of a cosmological constant, while the brane matter consists of a Chaplygin gas with the modified equation of state \(p_b = A\rho_b-B/\rho_b\). Initially, the brane matter for the special choice \(A = 1/3\) may have a negative or positive pressure, depending on the relative magnitudes of the parameter \(B\) and the bulk cosmological constant, while asymptotically in future the brane world approaches the \(\Lambda\)CDM model.