Braneworld singularities

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/14/308MaRDI QIDQ4457669zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alan Coley, Sigbjørn Hervik

Publication date 25 March 2004

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0303003

zbMATH Keywords

initial singularitymatter-dominated isotropic singularityspatially homogeneous braneworldsWeyl curvature conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: We study the behavior of spatially homogeneous brane-worlds close to the initial singularity in the presence of both local and nonlocal stresses. It is found that the singularity in these brane-worlds can be locally either isotropic or anisotropic. We then investigate the Weyl curvature conjecture, according to which some measure of the Weyl curvature is related to a gravitational entropy. In particular, we study the Weyl curvature conjecture on the brane with respect to the dimensionless ratio of the Weyl invariant and the Ricci square and the measure proposed by Gr{o}n and Hervik. We also argue that the Weyl curvature conjecture should be formulated on brane (i.e., in the four-dimensional context).

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