Time-dependent compactification to De Sitter space: a no-go theorem

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2019)097MaRDI QIDQ2314948zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors J. G. Russo, Paul Kingsley Townsend

Publication date 30 July 2019

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11967

zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravityenergy conditionsspacetime singularitiessupergravity models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Supergravity (83E50)

Abstract: It is known that the Einstein gravitational field equations in $D>4$ spacetime dimensions have no time-independent non-singular compactification solutions to de Sitter space if the $D$-dimensional stress tensor satisfies the Strong Energy Condition (SEC). Here we show, by example, that the SEC alone does not exclude time-dependent non-singular compactifications to de Sitter space, in Einstein conformal frame. However, this possibility is excluded by the combined SEC and Null Energy Condition (NEC) because the NEC forces a time-evolution towards a singular $D$-metric.

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