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Cosmic Baldness

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2011-09-19 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We elucidate the mechanism where by gravitational fluctuations are frozen in during a period of inflation but nevertheless within the past horizon of any geodesic observer the spacetime settles down exponentially fast to the de-Sitter metric.

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@article{arxiv.1109.3535,
  title  = {Cosmic Baldness},
  author = {W. Boucher and G. W. Gibbons},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.3535},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

This is a retyped version of the preprint : PRINT-83-0416 (CAMBRIDGE), Jun 1982. 6pp. Presented at 1982 Nuffield Workshop on the Very Early Universe, Cambridge, England, Jun 21 - Jul 9, 1982. Published in Nuffield Workshop 1982:0273 (QB981:N8:1982) by Cambridge University Press

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