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Signature transition in Einstein-Cartan cosmology

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-16 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In the context of Einstein-Cartan theory of gravity, we consider a Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmological model with Weyssenhoff perfect fluid. We focus attention on those classical solutions that admit a degenerate metric in which the scale factor has smooth behavior in the transition from a Euclidean to a Lorentzian domain. It is shown that the spin-spin contact interaction enables one to obtain such a signature changing solutions due to the Riemann-Cartan (U4U_4) structure of space-time.

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@article{arxiv.1308.2877,
  title  = {Signature transition in Einstein-Cartan cosmology},
  author = {Babak Vakili and Shahram Jalalzadeh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.2877},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

9 pages, typos corrected

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