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Kinematic Quantities and Raychaudhuri Equations in a $5D$ Universe

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-07-06 v1

Abstract

Based on some ideas emerged from the classical Kaluza-Klein theory, we present a 5D5D universe as a product bundle over the 4D4D spacetime. This enables us to introduce and study two categories of kinematic quantities (expansions, shear, vorticity) in a 5D5D universe. One category is related to the fourth dimension (time), and the other one comes from the assumption of the existence of the fifth dimension. The Raychaudhuri type equations that we obtain in the paper, lead us to results on the evolution of both the 4D4D expansion and 5D5D expansion in a 5D5D universe.

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@article{arxiv.1507.00973,
  title  = {Kinematic Quantities and Raychaudhuri Equations in a $5D$ Universe},
  author = {Aurel Bejancu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.00973},
  year   = {2015}
}

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