Late-time Cosmic Acceleration from Compactification
Nov 8, 2018
19 pages
Published in:
- Class.Quant.Grav. 36 (2019) 9, 095008
- Published: Apr 8, 2019
e-Print:
- 1811.03660 [hep-th]
Report number:
- ICCUB-18-020
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Abstract: (IOP)
We investigate the implications of energy conditions on cosmological compactification solutions of the higher-dimensional Einstein field equations. It is known that the strong energy condition forbids time-independent compactifications to de Sitter space but allows time-dependent compactifications to other (homogeneous and isotropic) expanding universes that undergo a transient period of acceleration. Here we show that the same assumptions allow compactification to FLRW universes undergoing late-time accelerated expansion; the late-time stress tensor is a perfect fluid but with a lower bound on the pressure/energy-density ratio that excludes de Sitter but allows accelerated power-law expansion. The compact space undergoes a decelerating expansion that leads to decompactification, but on an arbitrarily long timescale.Note:
- 23 pages. New subsections and references added
- cosmology
- compactification
- energy conditions
- expansion: acceleration
- space: de Sitter
- space: compact
- compactification
- strong-energy condition
- higher-dimensional
- Einstein equation
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