Discrete symmetries in translation invariant cosmological models (Q5959879)

The author considers as higher dimensional cosmological models a class of \((d+1)\)-dimensional Lorentz manifolds \(M\) which admit freely acting vector group \(\mathbb R^d \) as the isometry group with spacelike orbits. For \(d=3\) it is the space-homogeneous Bianchi I cosmological model. He finds explicitly the vacuum Einstein equations with the cosmological term and shows that besides, de Sitter solution with flat spatial orbits all other solutions are parametrized by regular \((d-1)\)-simplices inscribed in the united \((d-2)\)-sphere. Hence, the moduli space of solutions is the quotient of the sphere \(S^{d-2}\) by the symmetric group \(S_{d}\). A special cosmological solution for \(d=9\) is found such that 6 from 9 space dimensions contract to arbitrary small size, while the last 3 dimensions expand to arbitrarily large size. However the set of such special solutions has measure zero in the space of all solutions. Under the assumption that all points of the space of solutions are equally probable, the author calculates the probability to have a solution such that some other numbers of dimensions will collapse or expand.