G1 Cosmologies with Gravitational and Scalar Waves
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2016-08-25 v1
Abstract
I present here a new algorithm to generate families of inhomogeneous massless scalar field cosmologies. New spacetimes, having a single isometry, are generated by breaking the homogeneity of massless scalar field models along one direction. As an illustration of the technique I construct cosmological models which in their late time limit represent perturbations in the form of gravitational and scalar waves propagating on a non-static inhomogeneous background. Several features of the obtained metrics are discussed, such as their early and late time limits, structure of singularities and physical interpretation.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9812069,
title = {G1 Cosmologies with Gravitational and Scalar Waves},
author = {Ruth Lazkoz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9812069},
year = {2016}
}
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24 pages, 2 figures