We examine both quintessence and inflation within the brane-world picture, wherein the world is (4+d)-dimensional, and all standard model fields are trapped on the surface of a p-dimensional brane. We examine the situation where the inter-brane potential is dominated by the exchange of either a massless or a massive mode, for the case where the extra dimensions have the topology of a torus. In doing so, we find that neither potential is flat enough to allow for sufficient inflation. We will also propose a brane-based model where there are two large extra dimensions. In deriving the low-energy theory on the brane, we show that this model can have applications to both quintessence as well as to inflation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.81342 |
| Date | January 2004 |
| Creators | Hoover, Douglas A. (Douglas Allan), 1979- |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Physics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002173359, proquestno: AAIMR06405, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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