Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: The evolution of slow-roll inflation in a five-dimensional brane world model with two boundary branes and a bulk scalar field is studied. Assuming that the inflationary scale is below the brane tension, we can employ the moduli space approximation to study the dynamics of the system. Detuning the brane tension results in a potential for the moduli fields which we show will not support a period of slow-roll inflation. We then study an inflaton field, confined to the positive tension brane, to which the moduli fields are nonminimally coupled. We discuss in detail the two cases of $V(\ensuremath{\chi})=\frac{1}{2}{m}^{2}{\ensuremath{\chi}}^{2}$ and $V(\ensuremath{\chi})=\ensuremath{\lambda}{\ensuremath{\chi}}^{4}$ and demonstrate that increasing the coupling results in spectra which are further away from scale invariance and in an increase in the tensor mode production, while entropy perturbations are subdominant. Finally, we point out that the five-dimensional spacetime is unstable during inflation because the negative tension brane collapses.
Authors: P. R. Ashcroft, C. van de Bruck, A.-C. Davis
Institution: University of Cambridge
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2115060133