Brane Worlds and the Cosmic Coincidence Problem

Abstract

Brane world models with `large' extra dimensions with radii in the r_l ~ 0.01- 0.1 mm range and smaller ones at r_s < (1 TeV)^(-1) have the potential to solve the cosmic coincidence problem, i.e. the apparently fortuitous equality between dark matter and dark energy components today. The main ingredient is the assumption of a stabilization mechanism fixing the total volume of the compact submanifold, but allowing for shape deformations. The latter are associated with phenomenologically safe ultra-light scalar fields. Bulk fields Casimir energy naturally plays the role of dark energy, which decreases in time because of expanding r_l. Stable Kaluza Klein states may play the role of dark matter with increasing, O(1/r_s), mass. The cosmological equations exhibit attractor solutions in which the global equation of state is negative, the ratio between dark energy and dark matter is constant and the observed value of the ratio is obtained for two large extra dimensions. Experimental searches of large extra dimensions should take into account that, due to the strong coupling between dark matter and radii dynamics, the size of the large extra dimensions inside the galactic halo may be smaller than the average value.

6 pages, enlarged discussion on the compact volume stabilization mechanism. Version to appear on Phys. Rev. D

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