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*G R- QC /9 70 ∣0 55 * g r - q c / 9 7 0 1 0 5 5 2 5 J a n 1 9 9 7 In ationary solutions and inhomogeneous Kaluza-Kleincosmology in 4+ n dimensionsSantiago E. Perez Bergliaa Departamento de Fsica, Universidad Nacional de La PlataC.C. 67, 1900, La Plata, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaAbstractWe analyze the existence of in ationary solutions in an inhomogeneousKaluza-Klein cosmological model in 4 + n dimensions. It is shown that the5-dimensional case is the exception rather than the rule, in the sense that thesystem is integrable (under the assumption of the equation of state p = k)for any value of k. It is also shown that the cases k = 0 and k = 1=3 areintegrable if and only if n = 1.PACS number(s): 04.50.+h 98.80.CqKeywords: Multidimensional theories, in ationary solutionsMuch of the recent work related to unication of the fundamental interactions involvetheories that are formulated in a spacetime with dimension d 4. Superstrings [1] and M-theory [2] are examples of such theories. Although with dierent motivations, the idea of ahigher dimensional spacetime has been advocated by dierent authors [3, 4, 5, 6] since Kaluza[7] put forward a theory that unied relativity and electromagnetism in a 5-dimensionalspacetime. If one admits that the extra dimensions have a physical reality (and are not aE-mail: bergliaf@venus.sica.unlp.edu.ar mere mathematical device to carry out the dimensional reduction of the theory, as in [5]),then one must account for the fact that our universe is, in the present era, manifestly 4-dimensional. Usually, one adopts the view that the vacuum of the theory has undergonea spontaneous compactication [8], in which the extra dimensions are compactied to thePlanck size. However, it must be veried that this assumption is consistent with cosmology.That is, there must exist cosmological solutions of the theory that, starting from a spacetimein which all dimensions had comparable size, exhibit the desirable feature of an unobservableinternal