Generating Gowdy cosmological models
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
Using the analogy with stationary axisymmetric solutions, we present a method to generate new analytic cosmological solutions of Einstein's equation belonging to the class of Gowdy cosmological models. We show that the solutions can be generated from their data at the initial singularity and present the formal general solution for arbitrary initial data. We exemplify the method by constructing the Kantowski-Sachs cosmological model and a generalization of it that corresponds to an unpolarized Gowdy model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0312083,
title = {Generating Gowdy cosmological models},
author = {A. Sanchez and A. Macias and H. Quevedo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0312083},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Latex, 15 pages, no figures