Published January 15, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Closed cosmological models that satisfy the strong energy condition but do not recollapse

  • 1. Departamento de Matematica Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada (Spain)
  • 2. Gravitational Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna (Austria)

Description

We show the existence of a rather general class of closed cosmological models of Bianchi type IX that do not exhibit recollapse but expand for all times. This is despite the fact that these models satisfy the strong energy condition by a wide margin.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
81
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 023520-023520.5
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
42005769
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; PROFITS; SIMULATION
Descriptors DEC
MATHEMATICAL MODELS

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