Bouncing Branes

Abstract

Two classical scalar fields are minimally coupled to gravity in the Kachru-Shulz-Silverstein scenario with a rolling fifth radius. A Tolman wormhole solution is found for a R x S^3 brane with Lorentz metric and for a R x AdS_3 brane with positive definite metric.

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References in corpus (5)

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• Thick domain walls and singular spaces
• Bounds on curved domain walls in 5d gravity
• Exact Cosmological Solution and Modulus Stabilization in the Randall-Sundrum Model with Bulk Matter
• Standard Cosmology from Sigma-Model

Cited by in corpus (5)

• Quantum Corrections to the Cosmological Evolution of Conformally Coupled Fields
• Collapse and dispersal of a homogeneous spin fluid in Einstein-Cartan theory
• On Bouncing Brane-Worlds, S-branes and Branonium Cosmology
• Einstein-Cartan gravitational collapse of a homogeneous Weyssenhoff fluid
• Discriminating 4D supersymmetry from its 5D warped version