Published January 15, 2008
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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)
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.027501;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0710.0820v2;
Publishing Information
- 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
INIS
- 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
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2008 The American Physical Society