Accelerating multidimensional cosmologies with scalar fields

Abstract

We study multidimensional cosmological models with a higher-dimensional product manifold, that consists of spherical and flat spaces, in the presence of a minimal free scalar field. Dynamical behaviour of the model is analyzed both in Einstein and Brans-Dicke conformal frames. For a number of particular cases, it is shown that external space-time undergoes an accelerated expansion

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