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Description of Supernova Data in Conformal Cosmology without Cosmological Constant

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2011-07-19 v5 Astrophysics

Abstract

We consider cosmological consequences of a conformal invariant formulation of Einstein's General Relativity where instead of the scale factor of the spatial metrics in the action functional a massless scalar (dilaton) field occurs which scales all masses including the Planck mass. Instead of the expansion of the universe we get the Hoyle-Narlikar type of mass evolution, where the temperature history of the universe is replaced by the mass history. We show that this conformal invariant cosmological model gives a satisfactory description of the new supernova Ia data for the effective magnitude - redshift relation without a cosmological constant and make a prediction for the high-redshift behavior which deviates from that of standard cosmology for z>1.7z>1.7.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0102039,
  title  = {Description of Supernova Data in Conformal Cosmology without Cosmological Constant},
  author = {D. Behnke and D. Blaschke and V. N. Pervushin and D. Proskurin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0102039},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

13 pages, 1 figure, includes discussion of SN1997ff, text revised