Branes: cosmological surprise and observational deception

Abstract

Using some supernovae and CMB data, we constrain the Cardassian, Randall-Sundrum, and Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati brane-inspired cosmological models. We show that a transient acceleration and an early loitering period are usually excluded by the data. Moreover, the three models are equivalent to some usual quintessence/ghost dark energy models defined by a barotropic index ${\gamma }_{\varphi }$ depending on the redshift. We calculate this index for each model and show that they mimic a universe close to a $\Lambda CDM$ model today.

29 pages, 25 figures

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