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Cosmology of Bianchi type-I metric using renormalization group approach for quantum gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-02-24 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the anisotropic Bianchi type-I cosmological model at late times, taking into account quantum gravitational corrections in the formalism of the exact renormalization group flow of the effective average action for gravity. The cosmological evolution equations are derived by including the scale dependence of Newton's constant GG and cosmological constant Λ\Lambda. We have considered the solutions of the flow equations for GG and Λ\Lambda at next to leading order in the infrared cutoff scale. Using these scale dependent GG and Λ\Lambda in Einstein equations for the Bianchi-I model, we obtain the scale factors in different directions. It is shown that the scale factors eventually evolve into FLRW universe for known matter like radiation. However, for dust and stiff matter we find that the universe need not evolve to the FLRW cosmology in general, but can also show Kasner type behaviour.

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@article{arxiv.1906.08674,
  title  = {Cosmology of Bianchi type-I metric using renormalization group approach for quantum gravity},
  author = {Rituparna Mandal and Sunandan Gangopadhyay and Amitabha Lahiri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.08674},
  year   = {2020}
}

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20 pages Latex, manuscript revised and comments added