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Anisotropic universes with conformal motion

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

By imposing natural geometrical and kinematical conditions on a conformal Killing vector in Bianchi I spacetime, we show that a class of axisymmetric metrics admits a conformal motion. This class contains new exact solutions of Einstein's equations, including anisotropic radiation universes that isotropise at late times.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9602017,
  title  = {Anisotropic universes with conformal motion},
  author = {Roy Maartens and Conrad Mellin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9602017},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages, latex