RMxAA

Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica

ISSN: 3061-8649
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Keywords

cosmology: theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

How to Cite

On the dynamics of the universe in D spatial dimensions. (2012). Revista Mexicana De Astronomía Y Astrofísica, 48(2), 251-256. https://astronomia.unam.mx/journals/rmxaa/article/view/2012rmxaa..48..251h

Abstract

In this paper we present the equations of the evolution of the universe in D spatial dimensions, as a generalization of the work of Lima (2001). We discuss the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmological equations in D spatial dimensions for a simple fluid with equation of state p=omega_{D} rho. It is possible to reduce the multidimensional equations to the equation of a point particle system subject to a linear force. This force can be expressed as an oscillator equation, anti-oscillator or a free particle equation, depending on the k parameter of the spatial curvature. An interesting result is the independence on the dimension D in a de Sitter evolution. We also stress the generality of this procedure with a cosmological Lambda term. A more interesting result is that the reduction of the dimensionality leads naturally to an accelerated expansion of the scale factor in the plane case.
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