|  Brane World: Cosmology | 
In General
  > s.a. acceleration; cosmological-constant
  problem; entropy; quintessence;
  string phenomenology.
  * Phenomenology: 2000,
    Carroll showed that if the number of extra dimensions  n ≤ 2,
    and with some model for matter (gauge field + cosmological constant), there
    are no stable models; Expects this to be true more generally; 2003, Models
    seem to have difficulties producing a reasonable inflation.
  * Models: Randall-Sundrum
    models have an AdS bulk; Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (DGP) models have a flat,
    non-compact bulk.
  @ Intros, reviews: Carter IJTP(01);
    Langlois PTPS(02)ht-proc;
    Brax & van de Bruck CQG(03)ht;
    Maartens LRR(04)gq/03;
    Brax et al RPP(04)ht;
    Calcagni ht/04-proc [inflation, phenomenology];
    Coley CJP(05)ap;
    Langlois PTPS(06)ht/05;
    Wands AIP(06)gq;
    Cline PoS-a0704;
    Steinhardt & Turok 07.
  @ Bounce solutions:
    Kanti & Tamvakis PRD(03);
    Setare EPJC(06)ht [from self-gravity correction to Friedmann equation].
  @ DGP models: Dvali et al PLB(00)ht;
    Lue PRP(06);
    Gregory et al JHEP(07);
    Gregory PTPS(08)-a0801 [fatal flaws];
    > s.a. Galileon Field.
  @ DGP models, constraints: Battat et al PRD(08)-a0805 [Solar System];
    Xia PRD(09);
    Gong et al MNRAS(11)-a1008 [excluded by supernova data];
    Haranas et al ApSS(12)-a1304 [radar signal delay].
  @ Other models: Maggiore & Riotto NPB(99)ht/98;
    Cline et al PRL(99) [FLRW + Λ];
    Ida JHEP(00);
    Kaloper et al PRL(00)ht;
    Starkman et al PRD(01)ht/00 [FLRW × compact hyperbolic];
    Medved ht/02 [AdS black hole bulk];
    Carroll & Guica ht/03 [football-shaped extra dimensions];
    Barrow & Tsagas PRD(04)gq/03 [Gödel-type];
    Gibbons et al PRL(05) [colliding branes];
    > s.a. bianchi models;
      types of spacetimes [Einstein universe].
  @ Constraints: Hannestad PRD(01)hp;
    Fairbairn & Goobar PLB(06)ap/05 [from supernova surveys];
    Palma PRD(06)ht/05;
    Alam & Sahni PRD(06);
    Fay A&A(06)ht;
    Dicus & Repko ap/06 [supernovas and DGP];
    Rebouças MG11(08)ap/07 [non-trivial topology and DGP].
  @ Quantum cosmology:
    Koyama & Soda PLB(00);
    Bouhmadi & González-Díaz PRD(02);
    Boyarsky et al PRL(05)gq/04 [in 5D Schwarzschild-AdS];
    Lehners PLB(15)-a1504 [new non-singular ekpyrotic instantons].
  @ Related topics: Youm PRD(01),
    PRD(01) [variable c];
    Maia et al CQG(05)ap/04 [dark energy];
    Godłowski & Szydłowski GRG(04)ap [and supernova data];
    Gergely PRD(05)gq/04 [no swiss cheese];
    Ponce de León GRG(06)gq/04;
    Antoniadis et al MG11(08)gq/07 [and singularities];
    Greene & Levin JHEP(07) [stabilization and dark energy];
    news pw(08)jan [liquid He-3 analog of brane collision];
    Nelson & Sakellariadou PLB(09) [spacetime dimensionality and brane collisions];
    Astashenok et al ApSS(13)-a1301 [and standard FLRW cosmology];
    Olmo & Rubiera-Garcia a1405 [effective f(R) gravity];
    > s.a. FLRW spacetime; cosmological perturbations.
Ekpyrotic Scenario
  > s.a. early-universe cosmology; inflationary
  scenarios [alternatives]; universe from nothing.
  * Idea: A cosmological
    scenario without an initial singularity, proposed in 2001 by Steinhardt,
    Khoury, Turok and Ovrut; The hot big bang is produced in an otherwise empty,
    static universe by the collision of a brane in the bulk with a bounding
    orbifold plane.
  * Phenomenology: It claims
    to solve the horizon, flatness and monopole problems by postulating a
    slowly contracting phase of the universe prior to the big bang, and to
    generate a nearly scale-invariant spectrum of perturbations without the
    superluminal expansion of inflation, but with significant non-gaussian corrections.
  @ General references: Khoury et al PRD(01)ht;
    Kallosh et al PRD(01)ht [criticism],
    Khoury et al ht/01 [response];
    Hwang PRD(02)ap/01 [power spectrum];
    Räsänen NPB(02)ht/01 [brane collisions];
    Martin et al PRD(02)ht/01 [bounce];
    Räsänen PhD(02)ap [primer];
    news pw(08)jan [new version];
    Lehners PRP(08)-a0806 [and cyclic].
  @ New Ekpyrotic Cosmology: Buchbinder et al PRD(07)ht;
    Buchbinder et al JHEP(07)-a0706 [initial conditions].
  @ Perturbations:
    Brandenberger & Finelli JHEP(01)ht [effective field theory];
    Durrer ht/01;
    Garriga & Tanaka PRD(02)ht/01;
    Lyth PLB(02)hp/01 [bounce];
    Martin et al PRD(03)ht/02;
    Peter et al ht/02-proc;
    Lehners et al PRD(07)ht,
    AiA(10)-a1001 [non-gaussianity].
Phenomenology, Tests > s.a. branes [astrophysics];
  brane world gravity; modified general
  relativity [signature change]; gravitational instantons.
  @ General references: Coley CQG(02)
  [no chaos in Bianchi IX];
    Germani & Sopuerta ASS(03)ht/02 [varying G and Λ].
  @ And big bang: Blanco-Pillado et al PRD(04)ht/03 [colliding bubbles].
  @ And inflation: Mazumdar & Wang PLB(00);
    Huey & Lidsey PLB(01),
    PRD(02)ap;
    Kyae & Shafi PLB(02);
    Green & Mazumdar PRD(02)hp [hybrid];
    Kallosh & Linde JCAP(03)ht [supersymmetry];
    Tsujikawa et al PRD(04) [constraints];
    Ho & Hsu a1404 [and BICEP2];
    > s.a. inflationary scenarios.
  @ Anisotropy: Koyama PRL(03),
    Ringeval et al ht/03/PRD [cmb];
    Haghani et al PRD(11)-a1103 [anisotropy dissipation with Born-Infeld matter].
  @ Tests: Calcagni JCAP(03)hp,
    JCAP(04)hp/03 [inflation];
    Pires et al PRD(06) [lookback time];
    Huang et al JCAP(06) [inflation].
  > Other: see casimir force;
    collapse; dark matter;
    topological defects; topology change.
Randall-Sundrum Models > s.a. black holes;
  boundaries in field theory; branes;
  propagation of gravitational waves; tests
  of general relativity.
  * Idea: The extra dimensions
    are compactified; The usual spacetime is a 4D hypersurface or brane, and the
    bulk spacetime is Anti-de Sitter; Need a large Λ < 0; First
    model motivated by claims that it solves the hierarchy problem; Second model,
    with hidden brane pushed to infinite distance, motivated by claims that it
    reproduces Newtonian gravity.
  @ Theory: Randall & Sundrum PRL(99)ht,
    PRL(99)ht
    + pn(99)oct;
    Garriga & Tanaka PRL(00)ht/99 [and gravity];
    Ichinose CQG(01)ht/00 [1 wall],
    PRD(02)ht/00 [wall + anti-wall];
    Kakushadze PLB(01)ht/00 [gravity];
    Campos & Sopuerta PRD(01)ht,
    PRD(01)ht;
    Mannheim ht/06-proc [propagators and causality].
  @ Models: Padmanabhan & Shankaranarayanan PRD(01)ht/00 [4D Schwarzschild spacetime, de Sitter spacetime];
    Barceló & Campos PLB(03)ht/02 [analogs];
    Randall et al JHEP(05)ht [discretized];
    Casadio et al CQG(15)-a1503
      [minimal geometric deformation approach to spherically symmetric objects].
  @ And cosmology: Barceló & Visser PLB(00)ht [in 5D-AdS];
    Stoica et al PLB(00)ht;
    van de Bruck et al PLB(00)ht;
    Boehm et al PRD(01)ht [instability];
    Campos & Sopuerta PRD(01)ap [Bianchi I & V];
    Kanno PRD(05)ht [Hořava-Witten supersymmetric extension];
    Dwornik et al SPP(14)-a1210 [and galactic rotation curves].
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