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On the possibility of braneworld quintessential inflation

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posted on 2023-06-07, 21:28 authored by Mafalda Dias, Andrew R Liddle
We examine the possibility of achieving quintessential inflation, where the same field serves as both inflaton and quintessence, in the context of a five-dimensional braneworld. Braneworld cosmology provides an appropriate environment as it permits inflation with much steeper potentials than the conventional scenario, which is favorable to a late-time quintessence. We explore a wide space of models, together with contemporary observational data, to determine in which contexts such a picture is possible. We find that such a scenario, although attractive, is in fact impossible to achieve for the potentials studied due to the restrictiveness of current data.

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Physical Review D

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1550-7998

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American Physical Society

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8

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81

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  • Physics and Astronomy Publications

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Article Number: 083515

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2012-02-06

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2016-03-22

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2016-11-16

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