Reheating in small-field inflation on the brane: the swampland criteria and observational constraints in light of the PLANCK 2018 results

We study cosmological inflation and its dynamics in the framework of the Randall–Sundrum II brane model. In particular, we analyze in detail four representative small-field inflationary potentials, namely Natural inflation, Hilltop inflation, Higgs-like inflation, and Exponential SUSY inflation, each characterized by two mass scales. We constrain the parameters for which a viable inflationary Universe emerges using the latest PLANCK results. Furthermore, we investigate whether or not those models in brane cosmology are consistent with the recently proposed Swampland Criteria, and give predictions for the duration of reheating as well as for the reheating temperature after inflation. Our results show that (i) the distance conjecture is satisfied, (ii) the de Sitter conjecture and its refined version may be avoided, and (iii) the allowed range for the five-dimensional Planck mass, $$M_5$$ M 5 , is found to be $$10^5\,\text {TeV}\lesssim M_5\lesssim 10^{12}\,\text {TeV}$$ 10 5 TeV ≲ M 5 ≲ 10 12 TeV . Our main findings indicate that non-thermal leptogenesis cannot work within the framework of RS-II brane cosmology, at least for the inflationary potentials considered here.

Brane cosmology and the self-tuning of the cosmological constant in the presence of bulk black holes

Motivated by the holographic self-tuning proposal of the cosmological constant, we generalize and study the cosmology of brane-worlds embedded in a higher-dimensional bulk black hole geometry. We describe the equations and matching conditions in the case of flat, spherical and hyperbolic slicing of the bulk geometry and find the conditions for the existence of a static solution. We solve the equations that govern dynamical geometries in the probe brane limit and we describe in detail the resulting brane-world cosmologies. Of particular interest are the properties of solutions when the brane-world approaches the black hole horizon. In this case the geometry induced on the brane is that of de Sitter, whose entropy and temperature is related to those of the higher dimensional bulk black hole.

Rip brane cosmology from a viscous holographic dark fluid

This paper is devoted to the application of the holographic principle to describe Rip brane cosmological models in the presence of a bulk viscosity. We make use of the generalized infrared-cutoff holographic dark energy, introduced by Nojiri and Odintsov. We consider various examples: Rip brane cosmology corresponding to the Little Rip case, asymptotic de Sitter theory, and the so-called Big Freeze theory leading to a singularity. Analytical expressions for infrared cutoffs, as well as the particle and the future horizons at the brane, are obtained. The equations for energy conservation on the brane within the holographic theory are obtained in each case. The correspondence between viscous cosmology and holographic cosmology on the brane is shown.

Interacting dark energy model in the brane scenario: A dynamical system analysis

The present work is a second in the series of investigations of the background dynamics in brane cosmology when dark energy is coupled to dark matter by a suitable interaction. Here, dark matter is chosen in the form of perfect fluid with barotropic equation of state, while a real scalar field with self-interacting potential is chosen as dark energy. The scalar field potential is chosen as exponential or hyperbolic in nature and three different choices for the interactions between the dark species are considered. In the background of spatially flat, homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann–Robertson–Walker (FRW) brane model, the evolution equations are reduced to an autonomous system by suitable transformation of variables and a series of critical points are obtained for different interactions. By analyzing the critical points, we have found a cosmologically viable model describing an early inflationary scenario to dark energy-dominated era connecting through a matter-dominated phase.

Evolution of universe from Raychaudhuri equation for membranes

We know that in general relativity the Raychaudhuri equation gives the congruence and evolution of the geodesics. In this work, it is proposed that in brane cosmology the Raychaudhuri equation, apart from giving the collapse of the brane, it gives the evolution of the brane. Therefore, the Raychaudhuri equation gives the same information as the one of Friedmann’s, in the context of evolution.