Compactification, vacuum energy and quintessence

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 1999

Authors

Bento, MC (Author) Other; Bertolami, O (Author) Other

Journal

Title: General Relativity and Gravitation

Vol. 31

Pages: 1461-1472

ISSN: 0001-7701

Publisher: Springer Nature

Indexing

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Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Physical sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-001-361

DOI: 10.1023/a:1026774102600

Abstract (EN): We study the possibility that the vacuum energy density of scalar and internal-space gauge fields arising from the process of dimensional reduction of higher dimensional gravity theories plays the role of quintessence. We show that, for the multidimensional Einstein-Yang-Mills system compactified on a R x S-3 x S-d topology there are classically stable solutions such that the observed accelerated expansion of the Universe at present can be accounted for without upsetting structure formation scenarios or violating observational bounds on the vacuum energy density.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 12