We consider branes N in a Schwarzschild-AdS(n+2) bulk, where the stress-energy tensor is dominated by the energy density of a scalar fields map φ: N → > S with potential V, where S is a semi-Riemannian moduli space. By transforming the field equation appropriately, we get an equivalent field equation that is smooth across the singularity r = 0, and which has smooth and uniquely determined solutions which exist across the singularity in an interval (-ε, ε). Restricting a solution to (-ε, 0) resp. (0, ε), and assuming n odd, we obtain branes N resp. N̂ which together form a smooth hypersurface. Thus a smooth transition from big crunch to big bang is possible both geometrically as well as physically. © 2006 International Press.
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Gerhardt, C. (2006). Branes, moduli spaces and smooth transition from big crunch to big bang. Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 10(3), 283–315. https://doi.org/10.4310/ATMP.2006.v10.n3.a1
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