Waves on accelerating dodecahedral universes

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA5DB8zbMATH Open1368.83075arXiv1609.00806OpenAlexW2507284512MaRDI QIDQ5348151FDOQ5348151

Alain Bachelot, Agnès Bachelot-Motet

Publication date: 14 August 2017

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

Abstract: We investigate the wave propagation on a compact 3-manifold of constant positive curvature with a non trivial topology, the Poincar'e dodecahedral space, when the scale factor is exponentially increasing. We prove the existence of a limit state as t tends to infinity and we get its analytic expression. The deep sky is described by this asymptotic profile thanks to the Sachs-Wolfe formula. We transform the Cauchy problem into a mixed problem posed on a fundamental domain determined by the quaternionic calculus. We perform an accurate scheme of computation: we employ a variational method using a space of second order finite elements that is invariant under the action of the binary icosahedral group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.00806

zbMATH Keywords

asymptoticswavescomputationde Sittercosmic topologydodecahedral universes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave equation (35L05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Topological characterizations of particular spaces (54F65)

Cited In (2)

• Wave asymptotics at a cosmological time-singularity: classical and quantum scalar fields
• Propagation of massive scalar fields in pre-big bang cosmologies

Uses Software

• Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

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