On cosmological isotropy, quantum cosmology and the Weyl curvature hypothesis

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/10/1/002MaRDI QIDQ4032959zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sean A. Hayward

Publication date 18 May 1993

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9212006

zbMATH Keywords

signature changeincreasing entropylarge-scale isotropytunnelling solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: The increasing entropy, large-scale isotropy and approximate flatness of the universe are considered in the context of signature change, which is a classical model of quantum tunnelling in quantum cosmology. The signature change hypothesis implies an initial inflationary epoch, the magnetic half of the Weyl curvature hypothesis, and a close analogue of the conformal singularity hypothesis. Adding the electric half of the Weyl curvature hypothesis yields, for a perfect fluid, only homogeneous and isotropic cosmologies. In the cosmological-constant case, the unique solution is the Vilenkin tunnelling solution, which gives a de Sitter cosmology.

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