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Large Scale Cosmological Inhomogeneities, Inflation and Acceleration Without Dark Matter

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We describe the universe as a local, inhomogeneous spherical bubble embedded in a flat matter dominated FLRW universe. Generalized exact Friedmann equations describe the expansion of the universe and an early universe inflationary de Sitter solution is obtained. A non-perturbative expression for the deceleration parameter q is derived that can possibly describe the acceleration of the universe without dark energy, due to the effects associated with very long wave length super-horizon inflationary perturbations. The suggestion by Kolbe et al. [9] that long wave length super-horizon inflationary modes can affect a local observable through inhomogeneities is considered in the light of our exact inhomogeneous model.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0504004,
  title  = {Large Scale Cosmological Inhomogeneities, Inflation and Acceleration Without Dark Matter},
  author = {J. W. Moffat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0504004},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages, Latex file, no figures