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f(R) gravities, Killing spinor equations, “BPS” domain walls and cosmology
A bstractWe derive the condition on f(R) gravities that admit Killing spinor equations and construct explicit such examples. The Killing spinor equations can be used to reduce the fourth-order differential equations of motion to the first order for both the domain wall and FLRW cosmological solutions. We obtain exact “BPS” domain walls that describe the smooth Randall-Sundrum II, AdS wormholes and the RG flow from IR to UV. We also obtain exact smooth cosmological solutions that describe the evolution from an inflationary starting point with a larger cosmological constant to an ever-expanding universe with a smaller cosmological constant. In addition, We find exact smooth solutions of pre-big bang models, bouncing or crunching universes. An important feature is that the scalar curvature R of all these metrics is varying rather than a constant. Another intriguing feature is that there are two different f(R) gravities that give rise to the same “BPS” solution. We also study linearized f(R) gravities in (A)dS vacua.
119264434
f (R) Theories of supergravities and pseudo-supergravities
A bstractWe present f (R) theories of ten-dimensional supergravities, up to and including the quadratic order in fermion fields in action. They are obtained by performing the conformal scaling on the usual supergravities to the f (R) frame in which the dilaton becomes an auxiliary field and can be integrated out. The f (R) frame coincides with that of M-theory, D2-branes or NS-NS 5-branes. We study various BPS p-brane solutions and their near-horizon AdS × sphere geometries in the context of the f (R) theories. We find that new solutions emerge with global structures that do not exist in the corresponding solutions of the original supergravity description. In lower dimensions, We construct the f (R) theory of $\mathcal{N} = 2$, D = 5 gauged supergravity with a vector multiplet, and that for the four-dimensional U(1)4 gauged theory with three vector fields set equal. We find that some previously-known BPS singular “superstars” become wormholes in the f (R) theories. We also construct a large class of f (R) (gauged) pseudo-supergravities. In addition we show that the breathing mode in the Kaluza-Klein reduction of Gauss-Bonnet gravity on S1 is an auxiliary field and can be integrated out.
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Reconstruction of Five-Dimensional Bounce Cosmological Models from Deceleration Factor
In this paper, we consider a class of five-dimensional Ricci-flat vacuum solutions, which contain two arbitrary functions μ(t) and ν(t). It is shown that μ(t) can be rewritten as a new arbitrary function f(z) in terms of redshift z and the f(z) can be determined by choosing particular deceleration parameters q(z) which gives early deceleration and late time acceleration. In this way, the 5D cosmological model can be reconstructed and the evolution of the universe can be determined.
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Instability of the Randall-Sundrum Model and Exact Bulk Solutions
Five dimensional geodesic equation is used to study the gravitational force acted on a test particle in the bulk of the Randall-Sundrum two-brane model. This force could be interpreted as the gravitational attraction from matters on the two branes and may cause the model to be unstable. By analogy with star models in astrophysics, a fluid RS model is proposed in which the bulk is filled with a fluid and this fluid has an anisotropic pressure to balance the gravity from the two branes. Thus a class of exact bulk solutions is obtained which shows that any 4D Einstein solution with a perfect fluid source can be embedded in y = constant hypersurfaces in the bulk to form an equilibrium state of the brane model. By requiring a 4D effective curvature to have a minimum, the compactification size of the extra dimension is discussed.
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Constraints on modified Chaplygin gas from recent observations and a comparison of its status with other models
Abstract In this Letter, a modified Chaplygin gas (MCG) model of unifying dark energy and dark matter with the exotic equation of state p MCG = B ρ MCG − A ρ MCG α is constrained from recently observed data: the 182 Gold SNe Ia, the 3-year WMAP and the SDSS baryon acoustic peak. It is shown that the best fit value of the three parameters ( B , B s , α ) in MCG model are ( − 0.085 , 0.822 , 1.724 ). Furthermore, we find the best fit w ( z ) crosses −1 in the past and the present best fit value w ( 0 ) = − 1.114 − 1 , and the 1σ confidence level of w ( 0 ) is − 0.946 ⩽ w ( 0 ) ⩽ − 1.282 . Finally, we find that the MCG model has the smallest χ min 2 value in all eight given models. According to the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) of model selection, we conclude that recent observational data support the MCG model as well as other popular models.
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DARK ENERGY IN GLOBAL BRANE UNIVERSE
We discuss the exact solutions of brane universes and the results indicate that the Friedmann equations on the branes are modified with a new density term. Then, we assume the new term as the density of dark energy. Using Wetterich's parametrization equation of state (EOS) of dark energy, we obtain that the new term varies with the redshift z. Finally, the evolutions of the mass density parameter Ω2, dark energy density parameter Ωx and deceleration parameter q2 are studied.
119217684
Quasi-normal modes of a massless scalar field around the 5D Ricci-flat black string
As one candidate of the higher dimensional black holes, the 5D Ricci-flat black string is considered in this paper. By means of a non-trivial potential Vn, the quasi-normal modes of a massless scalar field around this black string space are studied. By using the classical third-order WKB approximation, we carefully analyze the evolution of frequencies in two aspects, one is the induced cosmological constant Λ and the other is the quantum number n. The massless scalar field decays more slowly because of the existence of the fifth dimension and the induced cosmological constant. If an extra dimension has in fact existed near the black hole, the quasi-normal frequencies may have some indication of it.