The inverse mean curvature flow in Robertson-Walker spaces and its application to cosmology

DOI10.4310/MAA.2006.V13.N1.A2zbMATH Open1109.53067arXivgr-qc/0404112OpenAlexW1992573404MaRDI QIDQ864413FDOQ864413

Authors: Claus Gerhardt 

Publication date: 8 February 2007

Published in: Methods and Applications of Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the inverse mean curvature flow in Robertson-Walker spacetimes that satisfy the Einstein equations and have a big crunch singularity and prove that under natural conditions the rescaled inverse mean curvature flow provides a smooth transition from big crunch to big bang. We also construct an example showing that in general the transition flow is only of class $C^3$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0404112

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zbMATH Keywords

Lorentzian manifoldgeneral relativitycyclic universeARW space-timestransition from big crunch to big bang

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) General relativity (83C99)

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