A Generally Covariant Model of Spacetime as a 4-Brane in 4+1 Flat Dimensions
Abstract
We construct a simple toy model of a closed FLRW spacetime by starting from a flat five dimensional scalar field space. The action contains no curvature terms. A string-like potential is used for the field space. The model is fully covariant and the spacetime metric is uniquely determined from the dynamical equations of the metric tensor. An SO(4) invariant ansatz for the scalar fields is shown to be sufficient to build the FLRW cosmology.
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