Cosmology in 5D and 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

TL;DR

This paper explores five-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity and derives four-dimensional cosmological models through compactification, analyzing their solutions and implications for cosmology.

Contribution

It introduces a method to obtain 4D gravity actions from 5D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet and AdS-Chern-Simons theories via compactification, and studies their cosmological solutions.

Findings

Derived Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet field equations for FLRW metric.

Obtained 4D gravity actions from 5D theories using Randall-Sundrum compactification.

Analyzed cosmological solutions in the resulting 4D models.

Abstract

We consider the five-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, which can be obtained by means of an apropriate choice of coeficients in the five-dimensional Lanczos-Lovelock gravity theory. The Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet field equations for the Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker metric are found as well as some of their solutions. A four-dimensional gravity action is obtained from the Gauss-Bonnet gravity using the Randall-Sundrum compactification procedure and then it is studied the implications of the compactification procedure in the cosmological solutions. The same procedure is used to obtain gravity in four dimensions from the five-dimensional AdS-Chern-Simons gravity to then study some cosmological solutions. The same procedure is used to obtain gravity in 4D from the five-dimensional AdS-Chern-Simons gravity to then study some cosmological solutions. Some aspects of the construction of the four-dimensional action gravity are considered in an Appendix.