Isochronous cosmologies

DOI10.1142/S0219887814500546zbMATH Open1316.83036arXiv1402.0704MaRDI QIDQ2925871FDOQ2925871

Fabio Briscese, Francesco Calogero

Publication date: 29 October 2014

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The possibility has been recently demonstrated to manufacture (nonrelativistic, Hamiltonian) many-body problems which feature an isochronous time evolution with an arbitrarily assigned period $T$ yet mimic with good approximation, or even exactly, any given many-body problem (within a large, physically relevant, class) over times $ildeT$ which may also be arbitrarily large (but of course such that $ildeT<T$). Purpose and scope of this paper is to explore the possibility to extend this finding to a general relativity context. For simplicity we restrict our consideration to the case of homogeneous and isotropic metrics and show that, via an approach analogous to that used for the nonrelativistic many-body problem, a class of homogeneous and isotropic cyclic solutions of Einstein's equations may be obtained. For these solutions the duration of the cycles does not depend on the initial conditions, so we call these models isochronous cosmologies. We give a physical interpretation of such metrics and in particular we show that they may behave arbitrarily closely, or even identically, to the Friedman-Robertson-Walker solutions of Einstein's equations for an arbitrarily long time (of course shorter than their period, which can also be assigned arbitrarily), so that they may reproduce all the satisfactory phenomenological features of the standard cosmological $Lambda$-CDM model in a portion of their cycle; while these isochronous cosmologies may be geodesically complete and therefore singularity-free.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.0704

zbMATH Keywords

cosmologygeneral relativityisochronous systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

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Cited In (5)

• Isochronous cosmological solutions of the Friedmann–Robertson–Walker model
• Isochronous solutions of Einstein’s equations and their Newtonian limit
• A note on generalization of the Ermakov–Lewis invariant and its demystification
• Isochronous spacetimes
• Isochrone spacetimes

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