Published July 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

A note on acceleration from product space compactification

  • 1. Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan (China)
  • 2. Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan (CN)

Description

We study compactifications of Einstein gravity on product spaces in vacuum and their acceleration phases. Scalar potentials for the dimensionally reduced effective theory are found to be of exponential form and exact solutions are obtained for a class of product spaces. The inflation in our solutions is not sufficient for the early universe. We comment on the possibility of obtaining sufficient inflation by compactification in general. (author)

Availability note (English)

Available online at the Web site for the Journal of High Energy Physics (ISSN 1029-8479) http://www.iop.org/

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
07
Journal Issue
2003
Journal Page Range
p. vp
ISSN
1126-6708

INIS

Country of Publication
Italy
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
35003371
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
COMPACTIFICATION; COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATIONS; GRAVITATION; INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; POTENTIALS; SCALARS; VACUUM STATES
Descriptors DEC
COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS

Optional Information

Notes
E-print number: hep-th/0304177