A measure on the set of compact Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker models

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/27/24/245001zbMATH Open1206.83173arXiv0912.2300OpenAlexW3099510217WikidataQ96692501 ScholiaQ96692501MaRDI QIDQ3069462FDOQ3069462

Authors: Boudewijn F. Roukema, Vincent Blanlœil 

Publication date: 26 January 2011

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

Abstract: Compact, flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) models have recently regained interest as a good fit to the observed cosmic microwave background temperature fluctuations. However, it is generally thought that a globally, exactly-flat FLRW model is theoretically improbable. Here, in order to obtain a probability space on the set F of compact, comoving, 3-spatial sections of FLRW models, a physically motivated hypothesis is proposed, using the density parameter Omega as a derived rather than fundamental parameter. We assume that the processes that select the 3-manifold also select a global mass-energy and a Hubble parameter. The inferred range in Omega consists of a single real value for any 3-manifold. Thus, the obvious measure over F is the discrete measure. Hence, if the global mass-energy and Hubble parameter are a function of 3-manifold choice among compact FLRW models, then probability spaces parametrised by Omega do not, in general, give a zero probability of a flat model. Alternatively, parametrisation by the injectivity radius r_inj ("size") suggests the Lebesgue measure. In this case, the probability space over the injectivity radius implies that flat models occur almost surely (a.s.), in the sense of probability theory, and non-flat models a.s. do not occur.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2300

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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