Affiliation:
1. Center for Theoretical Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
Abstract
We provide the first example of a cosmological solution of the Horava–Witten supergravity. This solution is obtained by exchanging the role of time with the radial coordinate of the transverse space to the five-brane soliton. On the boundary, this corresponds to rotating an instanton solution into a tunneling process in a space with Lorentzian signature, leading to an expanding universe. Due to the freedom to choose different nontrivial Yang–Mills backgrounds on the boundaries, the two walls of the universe (visible and hidden worlds) expand differently. However at late times the anisotropy is washed away by gravitational interactions.
Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Subject
Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics,Mathematical Physics
Cited by
29 articles.
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