Motivated by the well-known Chamblin-Reall solutions of $n$-dimensional background spacetime in a dilaton gravity and the dynamics of a domain wall in the same backgrounds, we have tried to generalize those solutions by including an electromagnetic field in the bulk. The electromagnetic field is assumed to be coupled with the scalar field in an exponential way. Under the specific relations among the various parameters in our model, we have found five different types of solutions. For every case, the solution has singularity. In these backgrounds, we have also studied the dynamics of the domain wall. The energy densities, which play the role of these interesting dynamics, are known to be induced from the bulk fields through the Israel junction condition. In this more general background field configuration, we have found that static bulk spacetime exists consistently with the dynamic domain wall. In several cases, depending on the values of the parameters, in the early stage of evolution, the domain wall is found to have an inflationary phase for finite period of its proper time followed by usual decelerated expansion.

• Received 9 July 2008

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.084008