Inflation on the brane with vanishing gravity

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2010)068zbMATH Open1272.83094arXiv0911.5343OpenAlexW2158243239WikidataQ59254747 ScholiaQ59254747MaRDI QIDQ367774FDOQ367774

Authors: Jason Gallicchio, Rakhi Mahbubani 

Publication date: 16 September 2013

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

Abstract: Many existing models of brane inflation suffer from a steep irreducible gravitational potential between the branes that causes inflation to end too early. Inspired by the fact that point masses in 2+1 D exert no gravitational force, we propose a novel unwarped and non-supersymmetric setup for inflation, consisting of 3-branes in two extra dimensions compactified on a sphere. The size of the sphere is stabilized by a combination of a bulk cosmological constant and a magnetic flux. Computing the 4D effective potential between probe branes in this background, we find a non-zero contribution only from exchange of level-1 KK modes of the graviton and radion. Identifying antipodal points on the 2-sphere projects out these modes, eliminating entirely the troublesome gravitational contribution to the inflationary potential.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.5343

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zbMATH Keywords

field theories in higher dimensionslarge extra dimensionscosmology of theories beyond the SM

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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