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Cosmological principle and honeycombs

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v3

Abstract

We present the possibility that the gravitational growth of primordial density fluctuations leads to what can be considered a week version of the cosmological principle. The large scale mass distribution associated with this principle must have the geometrical structures known as a regular honeycombs. We give the most important parameters that characterize the honeycombs associated with the closed, open, and flat FLRW models. These parameters can be used to determine by means of observations which is the appropriate honeycomb. For each of these honeycombs, and for a nearly flat universe, we have calculated the probability that a randomly placed observer could detect the honeycomb as a function of the density parameters.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0310552,
  title  = {Cosmological principle and honeycombs},
  author = {C. Criado and N. Alamo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0310552},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

16 pages, 3 figures. Minor revisions to reflect version published in Class.Quant.Grav

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