Four-dimensional de Sitter cosmology on D-branes nucleated in an asymptotically ${\text{AdS}}_5\times T^{1,1}$ background

Abstract

We find four-dimensional de Sitter (dS) vacuum solutions on probe D-branes nucleating in a background, which is a U(1) charged black hole solution of IIB supergravity, including stringy corrections. A sufficiently high chemical potential induced by the wrapped D3-brane charge, inducing an instability in the system, is essential to lead to the nucleation of the probe D-branes. We show that stringy corrections can yield a dS vacuum on spherical D3-branes consistent with the observations without fine-tuning. Motivated by the fact that the matter fields propagating in the compact extra dimensions can provide solutions for problems in particle physics and cosmology, we also construct a dS vacuum on a probe D5-brane that wraps on a two-torus of the internal manifold $T^{1,1}$. This construction requires turning on a worldvolume U(1) gauge field along the wrapped part of the D5-brane and dissolving some D3-branes in the D5-brane. The stringy corrections play an important role in yielding a dS vacuum, and the field strength of the U(1) gauge field must be sufficiently large to produce a tiny cosmological constant.

Comments: 22 pages, 3 figures; v2: major changes, title changed