Brane cosmological perturbations

May, 2000
14 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 62 (2000) 126012
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Abstract:
We address the question of cosmological perturbations in the context of brane cosmology, where our Universe is a three-brane where matter is confined, whereas gravity lives in a higher dimensional spacetime. The equations governing the bulk perturbations are computed in the case of a general warped universe. The results are then specialized to the case of a five-dimensional spacetime, scenario which has recently attracted a lot of attention. In this context, we decompose the perturbations into `scalar', `vector' and `tensor' modes, which are familiar in the standard theory of cosmological perturbations. The junction conditions, which relate the metric perturbations to the matter perturbations in the brane, are then computed.
  • space-time
  • dimension: 5
  • fluctuation
  • transformation: gauge
  • membrane model
  • astrophysics: perturbation
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