Published June 15, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Massless and massive graviton spectra in anisotropic dilatonic braneworld cosmologies

Creators

  • 1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Bari, and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari Via G. Amendola 173, 70126 Bari (Italy)

Description

We consider a braneworld model in which an anisotropic brane is embedded in a dilatonic background. We find the background solutions and study the behavior of the perturbations when the universe evolves from an inflationary Kasner phase to a Minkowski phase. We calculate the massless mode spectrum, and find that it does not differ from what expected in standard four-dimensional cosmological models. We then evaluate the spectrum of both light (ultrarelativistic) and heavy (nonrelativistic) massive modes, and find that, at high energies, there can be a strong enhancement of the Kaluza-Klein spectral amplitude, which can become dominant in the total spectrum. The presence of the dilaton, on the contrary, decrease the relative importance of the massive modes

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
73
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. 124015-124015.11
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2006 The American Physical Society