Inflation, braneworlds and quintessence

2001/03/31 by Greg Huey, James E. Lidsey · 7 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Brane #Brane cosmology #Classical mechanics #Cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark energy #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Geometry #Inflation (cosmology) #Inflaton #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Physics #Quintessence #Randall–Sundrum model #Scalar (mathematics) #Scalar field #Theoretical physics #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(01)00808-5

published as Phys.Lett. B514 (2001) 217-225 · 15 pages, 3 figures

arxiv created 2001/03/31 · openalex publication_date 2001/08/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Inflationary cosmology is developed in the second Randall-Sundrum braneworld scenario, where the accelerated expansion arises through potentials that are too steep to drive inflation in conventional cosmology. A relationship between the scalar and tensor perturbation spectra is derived that is independent of both the inflaton potential and the brane tension. It is found that a single field with an inverse power law potential can act as both the inflaton and the quintessence field for suitable values of the brane tension.

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• Brane world cosmology with Gauss-Bonnet interaction