Cosmological Model with a Viscous Fluid in a Kaluza-Klein Metric

Abstract

A Cosmological model with a viscous fluid in Kaluza-Klein metric is obtained assuming a time-dependent equation of state. The solution is in fact a generalization of an earlier work by Hajj and Boutros for a perfect fluid. It is also found that dimensional reduction of the extra space takes place such that the five-dimensional universe naturally evolves into an effective four-dimensional one. The dynamical behavior of the model is examined and it is also found that with a decrease in extra space the observable 3D space entropy increases thus accounting for the large value of entropy observable at present.