Bulk effects in the cosmological dynamics of brane-world scenarios - art. no. 104011

In this paper we deal with the cosmological dynamics of Randall-Sundrum bra ne-world type scenarios in which the five-dimensional Weyl tensor has a non vanishing projection onto the three-brane, where matter fields are confined . Using dynamical systems techniques, we study how the state space of Fried mann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker and Bianchi type I cosmological models is af fected by the bulk Weyl tensor, focusing on the differences that appear wit h respect to general relativity and also Randall-Sundrum cosmological scena rios without the Weyl tensor contribution.