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Phys. Rev. D 73, 083510 (2006) [18 pages]

Dark energy, scalar-tensor gravity, and large extra dimensions

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Kimmo Kainulainen^1,2 and Daniel Sunhede¹
¹Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35 (YFL), FIN-40014, Finland
²Department of Physical Sciences and Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, FIN-00014, Finland

Received 10 October 2005; published 6 April 2006

Weexplore in detail a dilatonic scalar-tensor theory of gravity inspiredby large extra dimensions, where a radion field from compactextra dimensions gives rise to quintessence in our 4-dimensional world.We show that the model can give rise to othertypes of cosmologies as well, some more akin to k-essenceand possibly variants of phantom dark energy. In our modelthe field (or radius) stabilization arises from quantum corrections tothe effective 4D Ricci scalar. We then show that variousconstraints nearly determine the model parameters, and give an exampleof a quintessence-type cosmology consistent with observations. We show thatthe upcoming SNAP-experiment would easily distinguish the present model froma constant Lambda model with an equal amount of darkenergy, but that the SNAP-data alone will not be abledistinguish it from a Lambda model with about 5% lessdark energy.

©2006 The American Physical Society

URL:	http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.73.083510
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevD.73.083510
PACS:	98.80.-k; 04.50.+h; 95.35.+d; 98.80.Cq 98.80.-k Cosmology 04.50.+h Gravity in more than four dimensions, Kaluza–Klein theory, unified field theories; alternative theories of gravity 95.35.+d Dark matter (stellar, interstellar, galactic, and cosmological) 98.80.Cq Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe (including cosmic pancakes, cosmic strings, chaotic phenomena, inflationary universe, etc.) YEAR: 2006

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