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Symmetries of the asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-09-21 v1

Abstract

We start a systematic investigation of possible isometries of the asymptotically de Sitter solutions to Einstein equations. We reformulate the Killing equation as conformal equations for the initial data at I+\mathcal{I}^+. This allows for partial classification of possible symmetry algebras. In particular, if they are not maximal, they may be at most 44-dimensional. We provide several examples. As a simple collorary it is shown that the only spacetime in which the Killing horizon intersects I+\mathcal{I}^+ (after a conformal completion) is locally the de Sitter universe.

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@article{arxiv.2205.14093,
  title  = {Symmetries of the asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes},
  author = {Wojciech Kamiński and Maciej Kolanowski and Jerzy Lewandowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.14093},
  year   = {2022}
}

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14 pages