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Exact cosmological solutions of scale-invariant gravity theories

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-11 v1 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We have found new anisotropic vacuum solutions for the scale-invariant gravity theories which generalise Einstein's general relativity to a theory derived from the Lagrangian R1+δR^{1+\delta}. These solutions are expanding universes of Kasner form with an initial spacetime singularity at t=0t=0 and exist for 1/2<δ<1/4-1/2<\delta <1/4 but possess different Kasner index relations to the classic Kasner solution of general relativity to which they reduce when δ=0\delta =0. These solutions are unperturbed by the introduction of non-comoving perfect-fluid matter motions if p<ρp<\rho on approach to the singularity and should not exhibit an infinite sequence of chaotic Mixmaster oscillations when δ>0\delta >0.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0509085,
  title  = {Exact cosmological solutions of scale-invariant gravity theories},
  author = {John D. Barrow and T. Clifton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0509085},
  year   = {2009}
}

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