Determining the shape of the universe using discrete sources

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/22/004MaRDI QIDQ4453729zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. I. Gomero

Publication date 7 March 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0305071

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: Suppose we have identified three clusters of galaxies as being topological copies of the same object. How does this information constrain the possible models for the shape of our Universe? It is shown here that, if the Universe has flat spatial sections, these multiple images can be accommodated within any of the six classes of compact orientable 3-dimensional flat space forms. Moreover, the discovery of two more triples of multiple images in the neighbourhood of the first one, would allow the determination of the topology of the Universe, and in most cases the determination of its size.

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