Inflation in the five-dimensional universe with an orbifold extra dimension

May, 1999
8 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 465 (1999) 81-85
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Report number:
  • KEK-TH-630,
  • KEK-PREPRINT-99-32

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Abstract:
New inflationary solutions to the Einstein equation are explicitly constructed in a simple five-dimensional model with an orbifold extra dimension S1/Z2S^1/Z_2. We consider inflation caused by cosmological constants for the five-dimensional bulk and the four-dimensional boundaries. In our solutions the extra dimension is static, and the background metric has a non-trivial configuration in the extra dimension. In addition to the solution for a vanishing bulk cosmological constant, which has already been discussed, we obtain solutions for a non-zero one.
Note:
  • Latex, 9 pages, references added, typos corrected Report-no: KEK-TH-630
  • inflation
  • Einstein equation
  • dimension: 5
  • orbifold
  • cosmological constant
  • space-time