title: Accelerating cosmologies from spacelike branes.
abstract: We point out that the recently proposed model of a flat four-dimensional universe with accelerated expansion in string or M theory is a special case of time-dependent solutions that the author found under the name of spacelike (S) branes. We also show that similar accelerating models can be obtained from S branes if the internal space is chosen to be hyperbolic or flat spaces.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan. ohta@phys.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Nobuyoshi
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authors.lastname: Ohta