Are small hyperbolic universes observationally detectable?

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/18/21/101MaRDI QIDQ2769495zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. I. Gomero, M. J. Rebouças, R. Tavakol

Publication date 5 February 2002

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0106044

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: Using recent observational constraints on cosmological density parameters, together with recent mathematical results concerning small volume hyperbolic manifolds, we argue that, by employing pattern repetitions, the topology of nearly flat small hyperbolic universes can be observationally undetectable. This is important in view of the facts that quantum cosmology may favour hyperbolic universes with small volumes, and from the expectation coming from inflationary scenarios, that $Omeg{a}_0$ is likely to be very close to one.

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