An alternative approach in the generalized Chaplygin gas model in higher dimensional space-time

Abstract: In the paper, we have presented a higher-dimensional cosmological model with a generalized Chaplygin-type gas to explain the recent acceleration of the universe. Dimensional reduction is feasible in this model, and our solutions are general, as they recover all known results of $4D$ Chaplygin-driven cosmology when $d =0$. Using Hubble-$57$ data obtained through the differential age method (DA), the best fit curves are drawn and estimated observational constraints of the model parameters. A note worthy aspect of the model is that the resulting field equation is highly nonlinear with respect to the scale factor. This nonlinearity allows us to describe both dust-dominated and accelerating universes, though only in extremal cases. We obtain solutions of the non-linear field equations which are new and interesting. We have adopted a first-order approximation of the key equation, which enabled us to derive an exact, time-dependent solution for the scale factor. The higher dimensional cosmological model is found to converge to a $\Lambda$CDM model for a large-scale factor, capturing the desired feature of an acceleration flip. We also explore the evolution of the deceleration parameter, effective EoS, jerk parameter, etc., both analytically and graphically. The Chaplygin gas parameter $\alpha$ being significantly less than unity, apparently the present model does not support pure Chaplygin gas model ($\alpha = 1$). However, the lower value is consistent with our analysis, suggesting that smaller values of $\alpha$ are expected at the later stage of the universe.