title: Accelerating cosmologies from compactification.
abstract: A solution of the (4+n)-dimensional vacuum Einstein equations is found for which spacetime is compactified on an n-dimensional compact hyperbolic manifold (n> or =2) of time-varying volume to a flat four-dimensional Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker cosmology undergoing a period of accelerated expansion in the Einstein conformal frame. This shows that the "no-go" theorem forbidding acceleration in "standard" (time-independent) compactifications of string or M theory does not apply to "cosmological" (time-dependent) hyperbolic compactifications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom. P.K.Townsend@damtp.cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: Paul K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Townsend
authors.forename: Mattias N R
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Wohlfarth