On the emergence of the $\mathbf{\Lambda }$CDM model from self-interacting Brans-Dicke theory in $\mathbf{d}=5$

Luz Marina Reyes, Santiago Esteban Perez Bergliaffa

We investigate whether a self-interacting Brans-Dicke theory in $d=5$ without matter and with a time-dependent metric can describe, after dimensional reduction to $d=4$, the FLRW m…