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Brane curvature and supernovae Ia observations

Parampreet Singh, R. G. Vishwakarma, Naresh Dadhich

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0206193

Abstract

It is well known that modifications to the Friedmann equation on a warped brane in an anti de Sitter bulk do not provide any low energy distinguishing feature from standard cosmology. However, addition of a brane curvature scalar in the action produces effects which can serve as a distinctive feature of brane world scenarios and can be tested with observations. The fitting of such a model with supernovae Ia data (including SN 1997ff at z≈1.7) comes out very well and predicts an accelerating universe.

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