Colliding Branes and Formation of Spacetime Singularities
Abstract
We construct a class of analytic solutions with two free parameters to the five-dimensional Einstein field equations, which represents the collision of two timelike 3-branes. We study the local and global properties of the spacetime, and find that spacelike singularities generically develop after the collision, due to the mutual focus of the two branes. Non-singular spacetime can be constructed only in the case where both of the two branes violate the energy conditions.
- Publication:
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APS Texas Sections Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- October 2007
- Bibcode:
- 2007APS..TSF.J5001T