Brane-world Cosmology

2006/01/01 by David Wands · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Brane #Brane cosmology #Cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Spacetime #Theoretical physics #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.2218177

16 pages, 4 figures, to appear in proceedings of ERE2005, the XXVIII Spanish Relativity Meeting, Oviedo, Spain

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Abstract

Brane‐world models, where observers are restricted to a brane in a higher dimensional spacetime, offer a novel perspective on cosmology. I discuss some approaches to cosmology in extra dimensions and some interesting aspects of gravity and cosmology in brane‐world models.

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