Published January 15, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Is the accelerated expansion evidence of a forthcoming change of signature on the brane?

  • 1. Fisica Teorica, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Apartado 644, 48080 Bilbao (Spain)
  • 2. Departamento de Fisica Fundamental, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008 Salamanca (Spain)

Description

We show that regular changes of signature on brane worlds in AdS5 bulks may account for some types of the recently fashionable sudden singularities. Therefore, the possibility that the Universe seems to approach a future sudden singularity at an accelerated rate of expansion might simply be an indication that our brane world is about to change from Lorentzian to Euclidean signature. Both the brane and the bulk remain fully regular everywhere. We present a model in which the weak and strong energy conditions hold on the brane, in contrast with the standard cosmologies leading to the analogous kinematical behavior (that is, with a diverging Hubble factor)

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
77
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 027501-027501.4
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
39058992
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ACCELERATION; BRANES; COSMOLOGY; EUCLIDEAN SPACE; INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE; SINGULARITY; UNIVERSE
Descriptors DEC
COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; RIEMANN SPACE; SPACE

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