Cosmological solutions and observational constraints on 5-dimensional   braneworld cosmology with gravitating Nambu-Goto matching conditions
  We investigate the cosmological implications of the recently constructed 5-dimensional braneworld cosmology with gravitating Nambu-Goto matching conditions. Inserting both matter and radiation sectors, we first extract the analytical cosmological solutions. Additionally, we use observational data from Type Ia Supernovae (SNIa) and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO), along with requirements of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN), in order to impose constraints on the parameters of the model. We find that the scenario at hand is in very good agreement with observations, and thus a small departure from the standard Randall-Sundrum scenario is allowed. 
Georgios Kofinas (Aegean U.), Emmanuel N. Saridakis (Natl. Tech. U.,   Athens & Valparaiso U., Catolica), Jun-Qing Xia (Beij...
astro-ph.CO gr-qc hep-ph hep-th