Inflation and brane gases

Brandenberger, Robert and A. Easson, Damien and Mazumdar, Anupam (2004) Inflation and brane gases. Physical Review D, 69 (8). ISSN 1550-7998

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Abstract

We investigate a new way of realizing a period of cosmological inflation in the context of brane gas cosmology. It is argued that a gas of co-dimension one branes, out of thermal equilibrium with the rest of the matter, has an equation of state which can - after stabilization of the dilaton - lead to power-law inflation of the bulk. The most promising implementation of this mechanism might be in Type IIB superstring theory, with inflation of the three large spatial dimensions triggered by ``stabilized embedded 2-branes''. Possible applications and problems with this proposal are discussed.

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Journal Article
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Physical Review D
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© 2004 The American Physical Society 7 pagejavascript:void(0);s, uses REVTeX, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
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63460
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02 May 2013 09:45
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