An inhomogeneous universe with thick shells and without a cosmological constant

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/27/15/155002zbMATH Open1195.85016arXiv1005.1184OpenAlexW1970366974MaRDI QIDQ3586290FDOQ3586290

Authors: Stefano Viaggiu 

Publication date: 6 September 2010

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

Abstract: We build an exact inhomogeneous universe composed of a central flat Friedmann zone up to a small redshift $z_1$, a thick shell made of anisotropic matter, an hyperbolic Friedmann metric up to the scale where dimming galaxies are observed ($zsimeq1.7$) that can be matched to a hyperbolic Lema^{i}tre-Tolman-Bondi spacetime to best fit the WMAP data at early epochs. We construct a general framework which permits us to consider a non-uniform clock rate for the universe. As a result, both for a uniform time and a uniform Hubble flow, the deceleration parameter extrapolated by the central observer is always positive. Nevertheless, by taking a non-uniform Hubble flow, it is possible to obtain a negative central deceleration parameter, that, with certain parameter choices, can be made the one observed currently. Finally, it is conjectured a possible physical mechanism to justify a non-uniform time flow.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.1184

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmologycosmic censorshipcanonical formalismspace-time singularitiesCauchy problems)Einstein's equations (general structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

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• Cosmic microwave background, accelerating universe and inhomogeneous cosmology

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