Metric expansion from microscopic dynamics in an inhomogeneous universe

DOI10.1088/0253-6102/54/3/20zbMATH Open1220.83052arXiv1008.2810OpenAlexW3104537587MaRDI QIDQ3010146FDOQ3010146

Authors: Sascha Vongehr 

Publication date: 30 June 2011

Published in: Communications in Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Theories with ingredients like the Higgs mechanism, gravitons, and inflaton fields rejuvenate the idea that relativistic kinematics is dynamically emergent. Eternal inflation treats the Hubble constant H as depending on location. Microscopic dynamics implies that H is over much smaller lengths than pocket universes to be understood as a local space reproduction rate. We illustrate this via discussing that even exponential inflation in TeV-gravity is slow on the relevant time scale. In our on small scales inhomogeneous cosmos, a reproduction rate H depends on position. We therefore discuss Einstein-Straus vacuoles and a Lindquist-Wheeler like lattice to connect the local rate properly with the scaling of an expanding cosmos. Consistency allows H to locally depend on Weyl curvature similar to vacuum polarization. We derive a proportionality constant known from Kepler's third law and discuss the implications for the finiteness of the cosmological constant.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.2810

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zbMATH Keywords

black holegeneral relativitymetric expansioninfinite Lindquist-Wheeler lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

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