Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 259-271 |
| Journal | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
| Volume | 2003 |
| Issue number | 10 |
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| Publication status | Published - Oct 2003 |
Keywords
- Cosmological perturbation theory
- Cosmology with extra dimensions
- Gravity waves