Cosmological solutions in Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet gravity with static curved extra dimensions

In this paper we perform systematic investigation of all possible solutions with static compact extra dimensions and expanding three-dimensional subspace (“our Universe”). Unlike previous papers, we consider extra-dimensional subspace to be constant-curvature manifold with both signs of spatial curv...

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Published in:The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields Particles and fields, 2021-02, Vol.81 (2), p.1-16, Article 136
Main Authors: Chirkov, Dmitry, Giacomini, Alex, Pavluchenko, Sergey A., Toporensky, Alexey
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Astronomy
Astrophysics and Cosmology
Curvature
Elementary Particles
Hadrons
Heavy Ions
Mathematical analysis
Measurement Science and Instrumentation
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Physics
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Quantum Field Theories
Quantum Field Theory
Regular Article – Theoretical Physics
Stability analysis
String Theory
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Summary:In this paper we perform systematic investigation of all possible solutions with static compact extra dimensions and expanding three-dimensional subspace (“our Universe”). Unlike previous papers, we consider extra-dimensional subspace to be constant-curvature manifold with both signs of spatial curvature. We provide a scheme how to build solutions in all possible number of extra dimensions and perform stability analysis for the solutions found. Our study suggests that the solutions with negative spatial curvature of extra dimensions are always stable while those with positive curvature are stable for a narrow range of the parameters and the width of this range shrinks with growth of the number of extra dimensions. This explains why in the previous papers we detected compactification in the case of negative curvature but the case of positive curvature remained undiscovered. Another interesting feature which distinguish cases with positive and negative curvatures is that the latter do not coexist with maximally-symmetric solutions (leading to “geometric frustration” of a sort) while the former could – this difference is noted and discussed.
ISSN:1434-6044
1434-6052
DOI:10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-08934-y