Cosmological evolution in brane-worlds with large transverse dimensions: Inflation and dark matter

Acknowledgements......Page 12
Abstract......Page 13
Gauge Problem......Page 14
Higgs/hierarchy Problem......Page 15
Strong CP Problem......Page 16
Dark sector problem......Page 17
The brane-world idea......Page 18
PART I: The Theoretical Framework......Page 20
Randall-Sundrum localization......Page 21
Brane-Induced gravity......Page 23
Randall-Sundrum plus brane--induced gravity......Page 25
The SM of particle physics......Page 26
Basics of Supersymmetry......Page 33
The SM of cosmology......Page 39
The early Universe......Page 47
Inflation......Page 59
PART II: Cosmological evolution, inflation and dark matter in brane cosmology......Page 70
Introduction......Page 71
Introduction......Page 80
GB brane-world......Page 82
Chaotic inflation in a GB brane-world......Page 84
Reheating......Page 87
Gravitino production......Page 88
Direct leptogenesis from sneutrino decay......Page 90
Results......Page 91
Conclusions......Page 94
Introduction......Page 95
D-term inflation......Page 97
Effective gravitational equations on the brane......Page 98
Inflationary dynamics on the brane......Page 99
Reheating......Page 102
Conclusions......Page 104
Introduction......Page 106
The model......Page 108
Critical point analysis......Page 114
Conclusions......Page 118
Conclusions......Page 120