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We discuss the problems faced in trying to deduce the evolution of cosmological perturbations in brane-world models. There are two natural ways to formulate the problem: one which makes the equations of motion simple and the other which makes the boundary condition simple. Unfortunately the problem is difficult to solve, even numerically, in either formalism. We present a more phenomenological approach which, while it does not solve the problem for any given model, illustrates some generic features one might expect to see in the tensor part of the cosmic microwave background power spectrum. We find that the observed scale invariance of the cosmic microwave background provides bounds on brane world models.
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Mennim, A., Battye, R.A. & van de Bruck, C. Cosmological tensor perturbations in brane world models. Astrophysics and Space Science 283, 633–638 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022555526434
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