A self-similar inhomogeneous dust cosmology

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/6/013zbMATH Open0933.83042arXivgr-qc/9803001OpenAlexW2121396810MaRDI QIDQ4701465FDOQ4701465

Gernot Haager, Marc Mars

Publication date: 21 November 1999

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

Abstract: A detailed study of an inhomogeneous dust cosmology contained in a $gamma$-law family of perfect-fluid metrics recently presented by Mars and Senovilla is performed. The metric is shown to be the most general orthogonally transitive, Abelian, $G_2$ on $S_2$ solution admitting an additional homothety such that the self-similar group $H_3$ is of Bianchi type VI and the fluid flow is tangent to its orbits. The analogous cases with Bianchi types I, II, III, V, VIII and IX are shown to be impossible thus making this metric privileged from a mathematical viewpoint. The differential equations determining the metric are partially integrated and the line-element is given up to a first order differential equation of Abel type of first kind and two quadratures. The solutions are qualitatively analyzed by investigating the corresponding autonomous dynamical system. The spacetime is regular everywhere except for the big bang and the metric is complete both into the future and in all spatial directions. The energy-density is positive, bounded from above at any instant of time and with an spatial profile (in the direction of inhomogeneity) which is oscillating with a rapidly decreasing amplitude. The generic asymptotic behaviour at spatial infinity is a homogeneous plane wave. Well-known dynamical system results indicate that this metric is very likely to describe the asymptotic behaviour in time of a much more general class of inhomogeneous $G_2$ dust cosmologies.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9803001

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zbMATH Keywords

Bianchi types

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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• INHOMOGENEOUS DUST COLLAPSE WITH COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT
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• Solutions generating technique for Abel-type nonlinear ordinary differential equations
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• New method for generating general solution of Abel differential equation
• Dust EPL cosmologies
• The integrability and existence of periodic solutions on a first-order nonlinear differential equation with a polynomial nonlinear term

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