Cosmological Models in Lovelock Gravity: An Overview of Recent Progress

Abstract

In the current review, we provide a summary of the recent progress made in the cosmological aspect of extra-dimensional Lovelock gravity. Our review covers a wide variety of particular model/matter source combinations: Einstein--Gauss--Bonnet as well as cubic Lovelock gravities with vacuum, cosmological constant, perfect fluid, spatial curvature, and some of their combinations. Our analysis suggests that it is possible to set constraints on the parameters of the above-mentioned models from the simple requirement of the existence of a smooth transition from the initial singularity to a realistic low-energy regime. Initially, anisotropic space naturally evolves into a configuration with two isotropic subspaces, and if one of these subspaces is three-dimensional and is expanding while another is contracting, we call it realistic compactification. Of course, the process is not devoid of obstacles, and in our paper, we review the results of the compactification occurrence investigation for the above-mentioned models. In particular, for vacuum and $\Lambda$-term EGB models, compactification is not suppressed (but is not the only possible outcome either) if the number of extra dimensions is $D⩾2$; for vacuum cubic Lovelock gravities it is always present (however, cubic Lovelock gravity is defined only for $D⩾3$ number of extra dimensions); for the EGB model with perfect fluid it is present for $D=2$ (we have not considered this model in higher dimensions yet), and in the presence of spatial curvature, the realistic stabilization of extra dimensions is always present (however, such a model is well-defined only in $D⩾4$ number of extra dimensions).

arXiv comment28 pages, 8 figures, 1 table; published within the Special Issue "Cosmological Models of the Universe'' of the Universe

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