https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3393-x
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Cosmological solutions from induced matter model applied to 5D
gravity and the shrinking of the extra coordinate
Divisão de Astrofísica, INPE-Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Av. dos Astronautas 1758, São José dos Campos, SP, 12227-010, Brazil
* e-mail: moraes.phrs@gmail.com
Received:
10
February
2015
Accepted:
4
April
2015
Published online:
28
April
2015
In this work, I present exact cosmological solutions from Wesson’s induced matter model applied to a general 5D metric in theory of gravity. The non-conservation of the energy-momentum tensor, predicted by
theory, allows the derivation of a relation that describes the time evolution of the extra coordinate, revealing its compactification. It is shown that such a compactification could induce the effects of an accelerated expansion in the observable universe.
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