Compactification, vacuum energy and quintessence

DOI10.1023/A:1026774102600MaRDI QIDQ1964548zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors M. C. Bento, O. Bertolami

Publication date 20 February 2000

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9905075

zbMATH Keywords

dimensional reductionvacuum energy and accelerated expansion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of noncommutative geometry in general relativity (83C65) Unified, higher-dimensional and super field theories (83E99) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We study the possibility that the vacuum energy density of scalar and internal-space gauge fields arising from the process of dimensional reduction of higher dimensional gravity theories plays the role of quintessence. We show that, for the multidimensional Einstein-Yang-Mills system compactified on a $Rimes{S}^{3}imes{S}^d$ topology, there are classically stable solutions such that the observed accelerated expansion of the Universe at present can be accounted for without upsetting structure formation scenarios or violating observational bounds on the vacuum energy density.

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