Evolution of initially contracting Bianchi class A models in the presence of an ultra-stiff anisotropic pressure fluid

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/12/125004zbMATH Open1342.83518arXiv1510.01095OpenAlexW3103770760MaRDI QIDQ2994597FDOQ2994597

Authors: John D. Barrow, Chandrima Ganguly 

Publication date: 2 August 2016

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the behaviour of Bianchi class A universes containing an ultra-stiff isotropic ghost field and a fluid with anisotropic pressures which is also ultra-stiff on the average. This allows us to investigate whether cyclic universe scenarios, like the ekpyrotic model, do indeed lead to isotropisation on approach to a singularity (or bounce) in the presence of dominant ultra-stiff pressure anisotropies. We specialise to consider the closed Bianchi type IX universe and show that when the anisotropic pressures are stiffer on average than any isotropic ultra-stiff fluid then, if they dominate on approach to the singularity, it will be anisotropic. We include an isotropic ultra-stiff ghost fluid with negative energy density in order to create a cosmological bounce at finite volume in the absence of the anisotropic fluid. When the dominant anisotropic fluid is present it leads to an anisotropic cosmological singularity rather than an isotropic bounce. The inclusion of anisotropic stresses generated by collisionless particles in an anisotropically expanding universe is therefore essential for a full analysis of the consequences of a cosmological bounce or singularity in cyclic universes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.01095

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyanisotropiccyclic universes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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