2002/08/01 by Élcio Abdalla, Elcio Abdalla, Abdalla, Elcio +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0208008
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openalex publication_date 2002/08/01 · arxiv created 2003/03/06 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We consider the dynamics of a FRW brane in a purely AdS background, from the point of view of the bulk, and explicitly construct the geodesical behaviour of gravitational signs leaving and subsequently returning to the brane. In comparison with photons following a geodesic inside the brane, we verify that shortcuts exist, though they are extremely small for today's Universe. However, we show that at times just before nucleosynthesis, if high redshifts were available, the effect could be sufficiently large to solve the horizon problem. Assuming an inflationary epoch in the brane evolution, we argue that the influence of those signs trought the extra dimension in the causal structure cannot be neglected. This effect could be relevant for probing the extra dimension in inflationary scenarios.