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Evolution of gravitational waves in Randall–Sundrum cosmology

Richard Easther1, David Langlois2, Roy Maartens3 and David Wands3,4

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We investigate the evolution of gravitational wave perturbations about a brane cosmology embedded in a five-dimensional anti-de Sitter bulk. During slow-roll inflation in a Randall–Sundrum brane-world, the zero mode of the five-dimensional graviton is generated, while the massive modes remain in their vacuum state. When the zero mode re-enters the Hubble radius during radiation domination, massive modes are generated. We show that modes decouple in the low-energy/near-brane limit and develop perturbative techniques to calculate the mode-mixing at finite energy.


Keywords

cosmology with extra dimensions

gravity waves/theory

cosmological perturbation theory

PACS

95.30.Sf Relativity and gravitation

98.80.Cq Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe (including cosmic pancakes, cosmic strings, chaotic phenomena, inflationary universe, etc.)

98.80.Es Observational cosmology (including Hubble constant, distance scale, cosmological constant, early Universe, etc)

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 10 (October 2003)

Received 18 August 2003, accepted for publication 27 August 2003

Published 30 October 2003



  1. Evolution of gravitational waves in Randall–Sundrum cosmology

    Richard Easther et al JCAP10(2003)014

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