Could the universe have an exotic topology?

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2019.V15.N3.A7MaRDI QIDQ2290436zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Vincent Moncrief, Puskar Mondal

Publication date 28 January 2020

Published in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00323

zbMATH Keywords

dark mattertopology of universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: A recent article uncovered a surprising dynamical mechanism at work within the (vacuum) Einstein `flow' that strongly suggests that many closed 3-manifolds that do not admit a locally homogeneous and isotropic metric extit{at all} will nevertheless evolve, under Einsteinian evolution, in such a way as to be extit{asymptotically} compatible with the observed, approximate, spatial homogeneity and isotropy of the universe cite{Moncrief:2015}. Since this previous article, however, ignored the potential influence of extit{dark-energy} and its correspondent accelerated expansion upon the conclusions drawn, we analyze herein the modifications to the foregoing argument necessitated by the inclusion of a extit{positive} cosmological constant --- the simplest viable model for dark energy.

Review text

In a recent paper of the first author [``Convergence and stability issues in mathematical cosmology, in: General relativity and gravitation -- a centennial perspective. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (2015); Zbl 1332.83005] it is argued that there exist many closed three manifolds that do not admit a locally isotropic and homogeneous metric that nevertheless evolve into space-times compatible with the current structure of the universe. This article takes into account the contribution of dark matter to this process.

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