Published June 1, 1988 | Version v1
Journal article

Cosmic inertial dragging

  • 1. Oslo Univ. (Norway). Fysisk Inst.
  • 2. Oslo Coll. of Engineering (Norway)

Description

The motion of free test particles in the flat Friedmann and de Sitter spacetimes is investigated. We find that the world lines of the particles converge toward the geodesic congruence normal to the homogeneous 3-spaces of these models. The relevance of this result to the physical significance of recent proofs of the so-called 'no-hair theorem' is pointed out. (author)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Class. Quantum Gravity
Journal Volume
5
Journal Issue
6
Series
Class. Quantum Gravity.
Journal Page Range
L101-L104
ISSN
0264-9381
CODEN
CQGRD

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