Letter: The Real Scalar Field in Schwarzschild-de Sitter Spacetime

In this paper, the real scalar field equation in Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime is solved numerically with high precision. A method called polynomial approximation is introduced to derive the relation between the tortoise coordinate x and the radius r. This method is different from the tangent approximation [1] and leads to more accurate results. The Nariai black hole is then discussed in details. We find that the wave function is harmonic only near the horizons as I. Brevik and B. Simonsen [1] found. However the wave function is not harmonic in the region of the potential peak, with amplitude increasing instead. Furthermore, we also find that, when the cosmological constant decreases, the potential peak increases, and the maximum wave amplitude increases.     

Effective 4D propagation of a charged scalar particle in Visser brane world

In this work we extend an analysis due to Visser of the effective propagation of a neutral scalar particle on a brane world scenario which is a particular solution of the five dimensional Einstein-Maxwell equations with cosmological constant having an electric field pointing in the extra spatial dimension. We determine the dispersion relations of a charged scalar particle to first order in a perturbative analysis around those of the neutral particle. Since depending on whether the particle is charged or not the dispersion relations change, we could collect bulk information, namely the presence of the electric field, by studying the 4D dynamics of the particles.It is a pleasure to dedicate this work to Alberto García on the occasion of his 60th birthday.     

Induced cosmology on a codimension-2 brane in a conical bulk

We study the cosmology of a 5-dimensional brane, which represents a regularization of a 4-dimensional codimension-2 brane, embedded in a conical bulk. The brane is assumed to be tensional, and to contain a curvature term. Cosmology is obtained by letting the brane move trough the bulk, and implementing dynamical junction conditions. Our results shows that, with suitable choices of the parameters, the resulting cosmological dynamics mimics fairly well standard 4-dimensional cosmology.     

Comment on Yukawa couplings and cosmological problems of intersecting brane models

In string theory, stabilization of moduli fields and their cosmological implications have been discussed by many authors. In this paper, we consider the relative positions of three intersecting branes. Surprisingly, there had been no phenomenological and cosmological argument on the mechanism that stabilizes the corresponding parameter. We show that the area of the triangle is not a free parameter. The effective potential is generated from loop corrections in the low energy effective Lagrangian, where supersymmetry is expected to be broken. The stabilization of the area of such triangles will determine the Yukawa couplings that have been considered as the free parameters of the intersecting brane models. The stabilization puts a constraint on the model, which is different from the other requirements that have been discussed before. We also discuss cosmological problems and then show an idea that may solve the problem.     

Neutrinos and flavour in a brane model

I describe how a domain-wall brane model based on SU(5) can explain fermion mass hierarchies using the intrinsically extra-dimensional phenomenon of fermion splitting.     

Reheating a multi-throat universe by brane motion

We propose a mechanism of reheating after inflation in multi-throat scenarios of warped extra dimensions. Validity of an effective field theory on the standard model (SM) brane requires that the position of the SM brane during inflation be different from the position after inflation. The latter is supposed to be near the tip of the SM throat but the former is not. After inflation, when the Hubble expansion rate becomes sufficiently low, the SM brane starts moving towards the tip and eventually oscillates. The SM fields are excited by the brane motion and the universe is reheated. Since interaction between the brane position modulus and the SM fields is suppressed only by the local string scale, the modulus effectively decays into the SM fields.     

Black holes in brane worlds

A Kerr metric describing a rotating black hole is obtained on the three brane in a five-dimensional Randall-Sundrum brane world by considering a rotating five-dimensional black string in the bulk. We examine the causal structure of this space-time through the geodesic equations.     

Viscous brane cosmology with a brane-bulk energy interchange term

We assume a flat brane located at y = 0, surrounded by an AdS space, and consider the 5D Einstein equations when the energy flux component of the energy-momentum tensor is related to the Hubble parameter through a constant Q. We calculate the metric tensor, as well as the Hubble parameter on the brane, when Q is small. As a special case, if the brane is tensionless, the influence from Q on the Hubble parameter is absent. We also consider the emission of gravitons from the brane, by means of the Boltzmann equation. Comparing the energy conservation equation derived herefrom with the energy conservation equation for a viscous fluid on the brane, we find that the entropy change for the fluid in the emission process has to be negative. This peculiar effect is related to the fluid on the brane being a non-closed thermodynamic system. The negative entropy property for non-closed systems is encountered in other areas in physics also, in particular, in connection with the Casimir effect at finite temperature.     

Casimir energy and brane stability

We investigate the role of Casimir energy as a mechanism for brane stability in five-dimensional models with the fifth dimension compactified on an S¹/_Z2$S^1/{\mathbb{Z}}_2$ orbifold, which includes the Randall–Sundrum two brane model (RS1). We employ a ζ$\zeta$-function regularization technique utilizing the Schwinger proper time method and the Jacobi theta function identity to calculate the one-loop effective potential. We show that the combination of the Casimir energies of a scalar Higgs field, the three generations of Standard Model fermions and one additional massive non-SM scalar in the bulk produces a non-trivial minimum of the potential. In particular, we consider a scalar field with a coupling in the bulk to a Lorentz violating vector particle localized to the compactified dimension. Such a scalar may provide a natural means of fine tuning needed for stabilization of the brane separation. Finally, we briefly review the possibility that Casimir energy plays a role in generating the currently observed epoch of cosmological inflation by examining a simple five-dimensional anisotropic metric.     

Cosmological Evolution of a Ghost Scalar Field

We consider a scalar field with a negative kinetic term minimally coupled to gravity. We obtain an exact non-static spherically symmetric solution which describes a wormhole in a cosmological setting. The wormhole is shown to connect two homogeneous spatially flat universes expanding with acceleration. Depending on the wormhole's mass parameter m the acceleration can be constant (the de Sitter case) or infinitely growing.     

A note on the generalized Friedmann equations for a thick brane

Within our thick brane approach previously used to obtain the cosmological evolution equations on a thick brane embedded in a five-dimensional Schwarzschild Anti-de Sitter spacetime it is explicitly shown that the consistency of these equations with the energy conservation equation requires that, in general, the thickness of the brane evolves in time. This varying brane thickness entails the possibility that both Newton’s gravitational constant G and the effective cosmological constant Λ₄ are time dependent.     

Inflationary Cosmological Models Without Restrictions on a Scalar Field Potential

A new strategy of exact solutions construction in inflationary cosmology within the self-interacting scalar field theory is proposed. It is shown that inflationary models have no restrictions dictated by the slow-roll approximation on the self-interacting potential. The suggested approach makes it possible to compute precisely the e-folds numbers in inflationary scenarios. The scalar field with a logarithmic evolution in time is analyzed in details. Other possible types of scalar field evolution are discussed.     

False vacuum decay in a brane world cosmological model

The false vacuum decay in a brane world model is studied in this work. We investigate the vacuum decay via the Coleman-de Luccia instanton, derive explicit approximative expressions for the Coleman-de Luccia instanton which is close to a Hawking-Moss instanton and compare the results with those already obtained within Einstein's theory of relativity.     

Cosmic Strings Coupled with a Massless Scalar Field

A scalar field generalization of Xanthopoulos's cylindrically symmetric solutions of the vacuum-Einstein equations is obtained. The obtained solution preserves the properties of the Xanthopoulos solution, which are regular on the axis, asymptotically flat, and free from the curvature singularities. The solution describes a stable, rotating cosmic string of infinite length interacting with gravitational and scalar waves.     

Kalb-Ramond field localization on a thick de Sitter brane

In this paper, we explore the localization condition of Kalb-Ramond(KR) tensorial gauge field on a thick de Sitter(dS) brane. Following the localization mechanism in the work by Chumbes et al(2012 Phys. Rev. D 85 085003), we analyze the localization of KR tensorial gauge field on a non-flat three-brane. We propose three kinds of coupling methods and two of them support the localization of zero mode. In addition, there exist resonant Kaluza-Klein modes on the thick dS brane. The effects of three parameters on the localization and the resonant mode for the KR field are also discussed.     

Schwarzschild Solution on the Brane

In this paper it is shown that Schwarzschild solution is possible in brane world for some specific choices of brane matter and the non-local effects from the bulk. A conformally flat bulk space time with fine-tuned vacuum energy (brane tension) shows that Schwarzschild solution may also be the vacuum solution for brane world scenario.     

Exact Solutions for the Fluctuations in a Flat FRW Universe Coupled to a Scalar Field

Some exact solutions for the small-first-order perturbations of an FRW metric minimally coupled to a neutral massive scalar field are presented.     

Periodic Distribution of Galaxies in Generalized Scalar Tensor Theory

With the help of Nordtvedt's scalar tensor theory an exact analytic model of a non–minimally coupled scalar field cosmology in which the gravitational coupling G and the Hubble factor H oscillate during the radiation era is presented. A key feature is that the oscillations are confined to the early stages of the radiation dominated era with G approaching its present constant value while H becoming a monotonically decreasing function of time. The Brans Dicke parameter is chosen to be a function of Brans Dicke scalar field so that no conflict with observational constraints regarding its present value arises.     

Tilting the brane, or some cosmological consequences of the brane Universe

We discuss theories in which the standard-model particles are localized on a brane embedded in space–time with large compact extra dimensions, whereas gravity propagates in the bulk. In addition to the ground state corresponding to a straight infinite brane, such theories admit a (one parameter) family of stable configurations corresponding to branes wrapping with certain periodicity around the extra dimension(s) when one moves along a noncompact coordinate (tilted walls). In the effective four-dimensional field-theory picture, such walls are interpreted as one of the (stable) solutions with the constant gradient energy, discussed earlier [1 and 2]. In the cosmological context their energy “redshifts” by the Hubble expansion and dissipates slower than the one in matter or radiation. The tilted wall eventually starts to dominate the Universe. The upper bound on the energy density coincides with the present critical energy density. Thus, this mechanism can become significant any time in the future. The solutions we discuss are characterized by a tiny spontaneous breaking of both the Lorentz and rotational invariances. Small calculable Lorentz noninvariant terms in the standard model Lagrangian are induced. Thus, the tilted walls provide a framework for the spontaneous breaking of the Lorentz invariance.