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Inaccessible Singularities in Toral Cosmology

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v3 Astrophysics

Abstract

The familiar Bang/Crunch singularities of classical cosmology have recently been augmented by new varieties: rips, sudden singularities, and so on. These tend to be associated with final states. Here we consider an alternative possibility for the initial state: a singularity which has the novel property of being inaccessible to physically well-defined probes. These singularities arise naturally in cosmologies with toral spatial sections.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0611101,
  title  = {Inaccessible Singularities in Toral Cosmology},
  author = {Brett McInnes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0611101},
  year   = {2008}
}

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10 pages, version to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity

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