Constraints on higher dimensional models for viable extended inflation

Abstract

We consider two kinds of higher dimensional models which upon dimensional reduction lead to Jordan-Brans-Dicke type effective actions in four dimensions with the scale factor of the extra dimensions playing the role of the JBD field. These models are characterized by the potential for the JBD field which arises from the process of dimensional reduction, and by the coupling of the inflaton sector with the JBD field in the Jordan frame. Taking into account the fact that these models allow the possibility of enough inflation and dynamical compactification of the extra dimensions, we examine in the context of these models the other conditions which need to be satisfied for a viable scenario of extended inflation. We find that the requirements of conforming to general relativity at the present epoch, and producing suitable bubble spectrums during inflation lead to constraints on the allowed values taken by the parameters of these models. A model with a ten dimensional JBD field is able to satisfy the condition for appropriate density perturbations viewed in the conformal Einstein frame, with a stringent restriction on the initial value taken by the scale factor of the extra dimensions.