Cosmological solutions in five dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory

Abstract

We construct new classes of exact cosmological solutions to five dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory with two coupling constants for the dilaton-Maxwell term and dilaton-cosmological constant term. All the solutions are non-stationary and the solutions that both coupling constants are non-zero are almost regular everywhere. The size of spatial section of the asymptotic metric shrinks to zero at early time and increases to infinitely large at very late time. The cosmological constant depends on the dilaton coupling constant and can take positive, zero or negative values.