Singularity-free cosmological solutions with non-rotating perfect fluids (Q1424868)

This paper gives the conditions for which non-singular exact cosmological solutions to Einstein's field equations with non-rotating perfect fluids exist in the case the acceleration vector is hypersurface orthogonal. Here nonsingular means that no physical or geometrical scalars blow up even at infinity and there is a condition that the perfect fluid obeys \(0 \leq p \leq \rho\). The motivation for the paper is the existence of singularity-free exact solutions discovered first by \textit{J. M. M. Senovilla} [Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, No. 19, 2219--2221 (1990; Zbl 0942.83506)] with more general classes discovered by \textit{E. Ruiz} and \textit{J. M. M. Senovilla} [Phys. Rev. D 45, 1995 (1992)], \textit{M. Mars} [Phys. Rev. D 51, R3989 (1995)], and \textit{L. Fernández-Jambrina} [Classical Quantum Gravity 14, No. 12, 3407--3412 (1997; Zbl 0904.53070)]. These solutions all exhibit cylindrical symmetry and at least partial separability. Whether these are exceptional solutions or only particularly symmetric ones in a large family of nonsingular solutions is unclear and motivated this study. The author shows a slightly weaker result that ``all known solutions follow from the condition of nonsingularity and there are no other nonsingular solutions in case the acceleration vector is hypersurface orthogonal''. [Comments by L.Fernández-Jambrina]