Eigenmodes of three-dimensional spherical spaces and their application to cosmology

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/18/305MaRDI QIDQ4789695zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roland Lehoucq, Jeffrey R. Weeks, Evelise Gausmann, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Jean-Philippe Uzan

Publication date 13 May 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0205009

zbMATH Keywords

topologycosmologyeigenmodesEinstein's equationthree-dimensional spherical spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02)

Abstract: This article investigates the computation of the eigenmodes of the Laplacian operator in multi-connected three-dimensional spherical spaces. General mathematical results and analytical solutions for lens and prism spaces are presented. Three complementary numerical methods are developed and compared with our analytic results and previous investigations. The cosmological applications of these results are discussed, focusing on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. In particular, whereas in the Euclidean case too small universes are excluded by present CMB data, in the spherical case there will always exist candidate topologies even if the total energy density parameter of the universe is very close to unity.

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