Kaluza-Klein bubble like structure and celestial sphere in the inflationary universe
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Abstract: We consider five dimensional deSitter spacetimes with a deficit angle due to the presence of a closed 2-brane and identify one dimension as an extra dimension. From the four dimensional viewpoint we can see that the spacetime has a structure similar to a Kaluza-Klein bubble of nothing, that is, four dimensional spacetime ends at the 2-brane. Since a spatial section of the full deSitter spacetime has the topology of a sphere, the boundary surface surrounds the remaining four dimensional spacetime, and can be considered as the celestial sphere. After the spacetime is created from nothing via an instanton which we describe, some four dimensional observers in it see the celestial sphere falling down, and will be in contact with a 2-brane attached on it.
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.
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