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Silent universes with a cosmological constant

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v3

Abstract

We study non-degenerate (Petrov type I) silent universes in the presence of a non-vanishing cosmological constant L. In contrast to the L=0 case, for which the orthogonally spatially homogeneous Bianchi type I metrics most likely are the only admissible metrics, solutions are shown to exist when L is positive. The general solution is presented for the case where one of the eigenvalues of the expansion tensor is 0.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0402125,
  title  = {Silent universes with a cosmological constant},
  author = {Norbert Van den Bergh and Lode Wylleman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0402125},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

11 pages; several typos corrected which were still present in CGQ version; minor changes