Cosmic topology: twenty years after

DOI10.1134/S0202289314010058zbMATH Open1298.83131arXiv1310.1245MaRDI QIDQ467386FDOQ467386

Authors: Jean-Pierre Luminet 

Publication date: 3 November 2014

Published in: Gravitation \& Cosmology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: What is the shape of the Universe? Is it finite or infinite ? Is space multi-connected to create ghost images of faraway cosmic sources? After a "dark age" period, the field of cosmic topology has now become one of the major concerns in astronomy and cosmology, not only from theorists but also from observational astronomers. Here I give a personal account of the spectacular progress in the field since the beginning of the 1990's, when I started to work in it.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.1245

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Topological characterizations of particular spaces (54F65)

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