SIX-DIMENSIONAL BRANEWORLD COSMOLOGY

We derive the brane cosmological solutions in the six-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory, via dimensional reduction from the higher-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory. Two extra dimensions are compactified by a magnetic flux and two codimension-two branes are located at the boundaries. All the cosmological solutions approach an attractor in the later times. The attractor represents a simple power-law inflationary Universe whose power is simply given by the dilatonic coupling in the theory. Then, we discuss the properties of our solutions and deduce the cosmological implications.