%0 Journal Article %1 Brax2003 %A Brax, Philippe %A van de Bruck, Carsten %D 2003 %J Class. Quant. Grav. %K imported %P R201 %R 10.1088/0264-9381/20/9/202 %T Cosmology and brane worlds: a review %V 20 %X Cosmological consequences of the brane world scenario are reviewed in a pedagogical manner. According to the brane world idea, the standard model particles are confined on a hypersurface (a so-called brane), which is embedded in a higher-dimensional spacetime (the so-called bulk). We begin our review with the simplest consistent brane world model: a single brane embedded in a five-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime. Then we include a scalar field in the bulk and discuss in detail the difference with the anti-de Sitter case. The geometry of the bulk spacetime is also analysed in some depth. Finally, we investigate the cosmology of a system with two branes and a bulk scalar field. We comment on brane collisions and summarize some open problems of brane world cosmology.

@article{Brax2003, abstract = {Cosmological consequences of the brane world scenario are reviewed in a pedagogical manner. According to the brane world idea, the standard model particles are confined on a hypersurface (a so-called brane), which is embedded in a higher-dimensional spacetime (the so-called bulk). We begin our review with the simplest consistent brane world model: a single brane embedded in a five-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime. Then we include a scalar field in the bulk and discuss in detail the difference with the anti-de Sitter case. The geometry of the bulk spacetime is also analysed in some depth. Finally, we investigate the cosmology of a system with two branes and a bulk scalar field. We comment on brane collisions and summarize some open problems of brane world cosmology.}, added-at = {2014-09-15T08:49:36.000+0200}, author = {Brax, Philippe and van de Bruck, Carsten}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2795ea5fb2750c51c462e9df707e3f133/zhaozhh02}, doi = {10.1088/0264-9381/20/9/202}, file = {Brax2003.pdf:Brax2003.pdf:PDF}, interhash = {d8605acf1cbd4f4ece9d7c4f7f4c7464}, intrahash = {795ea5fb2750c51c462e9df707e3f133}, journal = {Class. Quant. Grav.}, keywords = {imported}, owner = {zhao}, pages = {R201}, timestamp = {2014-09-15T08:49:36.000+0200}, title = {Cosmology and brane worlds: a review}, volume = 20, year = 2003 }