A de Sitter no-hair theorem for 3+1d cosmologies with isometry group forming 2-dimensional orbits (Q6065295)

Inflation is widely believed to be a cosmological epoch that occurred before the radiation dominance. Typically, it is driven by a scalar field that runs down its flat potential, homogeneously and slowly, and leads to an exponential expansion of the universe. A combination of mean curvature flow techniques and the Thurston Geometrization Theorem allowed to show that, approximating the inflationary potential as a positive cosmological constant and assuming that matter satisfies the weak energy condition and that all singularities are of the so-called crushing kind, for almost all topologies of the spatial slices of a cosmological spacetime, the volume of these slices will grow with time. This suggests that the volume will go to infinity, matter will dilute away, and the universe will resemble de-Sitter space in arbitrarily large regions of spacetime. This paper proves the above statement in dimension \((3+1)\) under the assumption that spatial slices can be foliated by \(2\)-dimensional surfaces of non-positive Euler characteristic that are the closed orbits of a symmetry group.