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Cosmological Expansion in the Randall-Sundrum Warped Compactification

arXiv:hep-ph/0001285 · doi:10.1142/9789812792129_0072

Abstract

The cosmology of a brane-universe embedded in a higher dimensional bulk spacetime presents some peculiarities not seen in ordinary (3+1) dimensional gravity. I summarize the current understanding, with emphasis on the suggestion by Randall and Sundrum that the bulk is 5-D anti-deSitter space, leading to a solution of the weak scale hierarchy problem.

8 pages, plenary talk given at COSMO-99, 2 October 1999, ICTP, Trieste, Italy; v.2: added references

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