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TY - JOUR
T1 - Inflation and brane gases
AU - Brandenberger, Robert
AU - A. Easson, Damien
AU - Mazumdar, Anupam
N1 - © 2004 The American Physical Society 7 pagejavascript:void(0);s, uses REVTeX, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
PY - 2004/4/2
Y1 - 2004/4/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.69.083502
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.69.083502
M3 - Journal article
VL - 69
JO - Physical Review D
JF - Physical Review D
SN - 1550-7998
IS - 8
M1 - 083502
ER -