The magnetic part of the Weyl tensor, and the expansion of discrete universes

DOI10.1007/S10714-017-2192-0zbMATH Open1358.83088arXiv1607.00775OpenAlexW3103849270WikidataQ59522775 ScholiaQ59522775MaRDI QIDQ520121FDOQ520121

Authors: Timothy Clifton, Daniele Gregoris, K. Rosquist 

Publication date: 3 April 2017

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We examine the effect that the magnetic part of the Weyl tensor has on the large-scale expansion of space. This is done within the context of a class of cosmological models that contain regularly arranged discrete masses, rather than a continuous perfect fluid. The natural set of geodesic curves that one should use to consider the cosmological expansion of these models requires the existence of a non-zero magnetic part of the Weyl tensor. We include this object in the evolution equations of these models by performing a Taylor series expansion about a hypersurface where it initially vanishes. At the same cosmological time, measured as a fraction of the age of the universe, we find that the influence of the magnetic part of the Weyl tensor increases as the number of masses in the universe is increased. We also find that the influence of the magnetic part of the Weyl tensor increases with time, relative to the leading-order electric part, so that its contribution to the scale of the universe can reach values of ~1%, before the Taylor series approximation starts to break down.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00775

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zbMATH Keywords

black holescosmologysilent universes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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