Is our Universe brany ?

Abstract

In brane-worlds, our universe is assumed to be a submanifold, or brane, embedded in a higher-dimensional bulk spacetime. Focusing on scenarios with a curved five-dimensional bulk spacetime, I discuss their gravitational and cosmological properties.

Invited talk at the Yukawa International Seminar (YKIS) 2005 "The Next Chapter in Einstein's Legacy", Kyoto, 27 June- 1 July 2005

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• Brane-World Gravity
• Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background in Brane World Cosmology

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