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On Penrose's `before the big bang' ideas

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-10-23 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We point out that algebraically special Einstein fields with twisting rays exhibit the basic properties of conformal Universes considered recently by Roger Penrose.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0710.3879,
  title  = {On Penrose's `before the big bang' ideas},
  author = {C. Denson Hill and Pawel Nurowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.3879},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

We changed our conventions, so that the sign of the cosmological constant agrees with the conventions of cosmologists

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