dc.contributor.author | Overduin, James M. | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Wesson, Paul S. | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Mashhoon, Bahram | eng |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | eng |
dc.description | DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20077670 | eng |
dc.description.abstract | Aims. We use data from observational cosmology to put constraints on higher-dimensional extensions of general relativity in which the effective four-dimensional dark-energy density (or cosmological “constant”) decays with time. Methods. In particular we study the implications of this decaying dark energy for the age of the universe, large-scale structure formation, big-bang nucleosynthesis and the magnitude-redshift relation for type Ia supernovae.
Results. Two of these tests (age and the magnitude-redshift relation) place modest lower limits on the free parameter of the theory, a cosmological length scale L akin to the de Sitter radius. These limits will improve if experimental uncertainties on supernova magnitudes can be reduced around z ∼ 1. | eng |
dc.description.sponsorship | P.S.W. and B.M. acknowledge support from N.S.E.R.C. and U.M.(C.) respectively. | eng |
dc.identifier.citation | A&A 473, 727-731 (2007) | eng |
dc.identifier.issn | 0004-6361 | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10355/8253 | eng |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | EDP Sciences | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcollection | University of Missouri--Columbia. College of Arts and Sciences. Department of Physics and Astronomy. Physics and Astronomy publications | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Cosmology | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Supernovae | eng |
dc.title | Decaying dark energy in higher-dimensional gravity | eng |
dc.type | Article | eng |