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Bouncing Braneworlds Go Crunch!

Jordan L. Hovdebo, Robert C. Myers

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0308088

Abstract

Recently, interesting braneworld cosmologies in the Randall-Sundrum scenario have been constructed using a bulk spacetime which corresponds to a charged AdS black hole. In particular, these solutions appear to `bounce', making a smooth transition from a contracting to an expanding phase. By considering the spacetime geometry more carefully, we demonstrate that generically in these solutions the brane will encounter a singularity in the transition region.

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