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Compactification, Vacuum Energy and Quintessence

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Abstract

We study the possibility that the vacuum energydensity of scalar and internal-space gauge fieldsarising from the process of dimensional reduction ofhigher dimensional gravity theories plays the role of quintessence. We show that, for themultidimensional Einstein-Yang-Mills system compactifiedon a R × S3 × Sdtopology, there are classically stable solutions suchthat the observed accelerated expansion of the Universe atpresent can be accounted for without upsetting structureformation scenarios or violating observational bounds onthe vacuum energy density.

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Bento, M.C., Bertolami, O. Compactification, Vacuum Energy and Quintessence. General Relativity and Gravitation 31, 1461–1472 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026774102600

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