Diffusive inflationary cosmology

DOI10.1016/0393-0440(90)90028-2MaRDI QIDQ808014zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David D. Bleecker

Publication date 1990

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0393-0440(90)90028-2

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constantinflationary cosmologyRicci flowvacuum field equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Review text

The author considers the Ricci flow equation \(g'(t)=-2k Ric(g(t))+Dg(t)\) for a Riemannian metric g(t) on a compact 3-manifold, where k and D are some constants. This is related to general relativity by considering a corresponding Lorentzian metric \(^{(4)}g=-c^ 2dt^ 2+g(t).\) For metrics of this form, Einstein's vacuum field equation with cosmological constant reduces to a second order differential equation for g(t) along with two constraint equations. The main goal of the article is to show a long-time agreement of these two dynamical problems under additional assumptions which are of interest in connection with inflationary cosmology.

Recommendations

• Cosmological models through spatial Ricci-flow
• Quasi-convergence of Ricci flow for a class of metrics
• An introduction to conformal Ricci flow
• Riemann-Christoffel flows
• Recent developments on the Ricci flow

Cites work

• Asymptotic behavior of homogeneous cosmological models in the presence of a positive cosmological constant
• Deforming metrics in the direction of their Ricci tensors
• Four-manifolds with positive curvature operator
• General Relativity
• Global aspects of the Cauchy problem in general relativity
• Inflation and quantum cosmology
• Inflationary cosmology
• Ricci deformation of the metric on a Riemannian manifold
• The Einstein Equations of Evolution-A Geometric Approach
• Three-manifolds with positive Ricci curvature

Cited in

(6)

• Setting initial conditions for inflation with reaction-diffusion equation
• Cosmological models through spatial Ricci-flow
• A relation between diffusion, temperature and the cosmological constant
• Ricci flow deformation of cosmological initial data sets
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1467236 (Why is no real title available?)
• DYNAMICS OF INFLATIONARY COSMOLOGY IN TVSD MODEL

This page was built for publication: Diffusive inflationary cosmology

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q808014)