Brane world cosmology with Gauss-Bonnet and induced gravity terms

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by  Richard A. Brown

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Declaration
Whilst registered as a candidate for the above degree, I have not been registered for any
other research award. The results and conclusions embodied in this thesis are the work
ofthenamedcandidateand havenot been submittedfor anyotheracademic award.
To myfamilyand friends.
EdgarAllanPoe(1809-1849)ponders thesubjectofmatterundergoingcollapse:
In sinking into Unity, it will sink at once into that
Nothingness which, to all Finite Perception, Unity
must be–into that Material Nihility from which alone
we can conceive it to have been evoked–to have been
created by the Volition of God.
from Eureka - A Prose Poem (1848), written 81 years before Edwin Hubble’s observa-
tionsoftheexpansionoftheuniverse.
Abstract
In this thesis we investigate certain cosmological brane world models of the Randall-
Sundrum type. The models are motivated by string theory but we focus on the phe-
nomenologyofthecosmology.
TwomodelsofspecificinterestaretheDvali-Gabadadze-Porrati(DGP,induced-gravity)
model, where the brane action is modified, and the Gauss-Bonnet model where the bulk
action ismodified. Both ofthesemodificationsmaybemotivatedbystringtheory.
WeprovideabriefreviewofRandall-SundrummodelsandthenconsidertheKaluza-
KleinmodesonMinkowskianddeSitterbranes,inboththetwoandonebranecases. The
spectrumobtainedforthedeSitterbranesisanewresult. WethenconsideraFriedmann-
Robertson-Walkerbranein ordertoinvestigatethecosmologicaldynamicsonthebrane.
We present a brief discussion of the DGP and Gauss-Bonnet brane worlds. We then
investigate the Gauss-Bonnet-Induced-Gravity (GBIG) model where the Gauss-Bonnet
(GB)bulktermiscombinedwiththeinduced-gravity(IG)branetermoftheDGPmodel.
Wepresentathoroughinvestigationofcosmologicaldynamics,inparticularfocusingon
GBIG models that behave like self-accelerating DGP models at late times but at early
timesshowtheremarkablefeature ofafinite-temperatureBig Bang. Wealso discussthe
constraintsfromobservations,includingages andBig Bang nucleosynthesis.
Preface
The work of this thesis was carried out at the Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation,
UniversityofPortsmouth,UnitedKingdom.
Thefollowingchapters are basedon publishedwork:
Chapter 3 - R. A. Brown, Roy Maartens, Eleftherios Papantonopoulos and Vas-
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silis Zamarias. “A late-accelerating universe with no dark energy-and a finite-
temperaturebigbang”, JCAP0511(2005)008,gr-qc/0508116.
Chapter4-R.A.Brown. “BraneUniverseswithGauss-Bonnet-Induced-Gravity”,
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accepted forpublicationin“General Relativityand Gravitation”,gr-qc/0602050.
Acknowledgements
First and foremost Iwould liketo thank Roy Maartens withoutwhosesupport,guidance
and infinite patience this thesis would never have been completed. Other people who
directly influenced this work and require my thanks include Mariam Bouhmadi-Lo´pez,
ChrisClarkson,KazuyaKoyamaandSanjeevSeahratheMapleGuru. Imustalsoinclude
David Wands and Andrew Mennim for useful discussions. Other people who deserve
thanks for their support and making my stay in the ICG more pleasurable are Kishore
Ananda, Frederico Arroja, Iain Brown, Chris Byrnes, Dan Carson, Robert Crittenden,
Mathew Smith and David Wake. Kishore Ananda deserves special thanks for puttingup
withmeas aflat mateforthethreeyears ofmyPhD study.
Iwouldalsoliketo thankall theteaching staffinthePhysicsand Astronomydepart-
ment at the University of Hertfordshire. Without the foundation degree course provided
thereIwouldneverhavegotintocosmologyin anypractical way.
I must also thank dear friends such as Dan Mee, my connection to the real world
outside academia in Portsmouth. Also all the Hatfield guys who are able to make me
forget all about work within a few minutes of meeting up. I want to thank all the Hasle-
mere crew as well, whose friendship I know I can rely upon however long it is between
meetingup.
Last but not least I must thank my family whose support is one of the few constants
in lifethat can berelied uponhoweverbad thingsget.
Without all these people, starting, let alone finishing, this project would never have
happened.
Table of Contents
Abstract v
Preface vi
Acknowledgements vii
1 Introduction 1
2 RSBrane Worlds 7
2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2 MinkowskiBranes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2.1 Thebackground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2.2 Fieldequationson thebrane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.2.3 Kaluza-KleinModes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.3 deSitterBraneWorlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.3.1 Thebackground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.3.2 Kaluza-Kleinmodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.4 FriedmannEquations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2.4.1 TheGRresult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.4.2 RSresult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.5 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
3 The DGP,GBandGBIGBrane WorldCosmologies 34
3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
3.2 DGPBranes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
3.3 Gauss-BonnetBrane Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3.4 Gauss-Bonnet-InducedGravity (GBIG)Branes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3.4.1 FieldEquations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
3.4.2 DGPbranewithGBbulkgravity: combiningUVandIRmodifi-
cationsofGR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
3.4.3 CosmologicalDynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
3.4.4 Nucleosynthesisandtheageoftheuniverse . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
3.5 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
4 GeneralisedcosmologieswithInduced GravityandGauss-Bonnet terms 60
4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
4.2 Field Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
4.3 FriedmannEquationSolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4.3.1 Minkowskibulk(φ = 0)withbranetension . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4.3.2 AdSbulk(φ = 0)withbranetension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
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4.4 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
5 Conclusions 81
A Conventions 86
References 87