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In the scope of the nonlinear massive gravity, we study fixed points of evolution equations for a Bianchi type--I universe. We find a new attractor solution with non-vanishing anisotropy, on which the physical metric is isotropic but the…

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In the SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y standard electroweak theory coupled with the Einstein gravity, new topological configurations naturally emerge, if the spatial section of the universe is globally a three-sphere (S^3) with a small radius. The SU(2)_L…

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We investigate the necessary conditions for the two spacetimes, which are solutions to the Einstein field equations with an anisotropic matter source, to be related to each other by means of a conformal transformation. As a result, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-18 Jarosław Kopiński

Two families of exact simple solutions of Einstein field equations for inhomogeneous stiff cosmologies are presented. The method to obtain the solutions is based on the introduction of auxiliary functions in order to cast the Einstein…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Guillermo A. Gonzalez , Fabio D. Lora , Jenrry A. Jaimes

Strong field (exact) solutions of the gravitational field equations of General Relativity in the presence of a Cosmological Constant are investigated. In particular, a full exact solution is derived within the inhomogeneous Szekeres-Szafron…

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We consider fluctuations in a perfect irrotational fluid coupled to gravity in an Einstein static universe background. We show that the homogeneous linear perturbations of the scalar and metric fluctuations in the Einstein static universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Losic , W. G. Unruh

In this article we investigate and develop specific aspects of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) scalar field cosmologies related to the interpretation that canonical and phantom scalar field sources may be interpreted as cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Mauricio Cataldo , Fabiola Arevalo , Patricio Mella

Massive bigravity models are interesting alternatives to standard cosmology. In most cases, however, these models have been studied for a simplified scenario in which both metrics take homogeneous and isotropic forms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-18 Henrik Nersisyan , Yashar Akrami , Luca Amendola

Until now, various methods have been demonstrated to solve the Friedmann-Lama\'{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) equations in the spatially flat $(k=0)$ cosmological model. In this study, in order to solve the field equations of the spatially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-09 E. Ahmadi-Azar , K. Atazadeh , A. Eghbali

We discuss conformally flat plane wave solutions of Einstein equations depending on the plane wave phase $\xi=\omega\tau-{\bf qx}$, where $\tau$ is the conformal time. We show that ideal fluid Einstein equations and scalar fields with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-26 Z. Haba

It is known that barotropic FRW equations written in the conformal time variable can be reduced to simple linear equations for an exponential function involving the conformal Hubble rate. Here, we show that an interesting class of…

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We obtain the correct hamiltonian which describes the dynamics of classes of asymptotic open Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetimes, which includes Tolman geometries. We calculate the surface term that has to be added to…

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We show that the solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in a homogeneous and isotropic universe are given by triconfluent Heun functions for the spatially closed, flat, and open geometries of the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe filled…

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We investigate stability of the Einstein static solution against homogeneous scalar, vector and tensor perturbations in the context of Rastall theory of gravity. We show that this solution in the presence of perfect fluid and vacuum energy…

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We consider the evolution of a 4D-universe embedded in a five-dimensional (bulk) world with a large extra dimension and a cosmological constant. The cosmology in 5D possesses "wave-like" character in the sense that the metric coefficients…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Ponce de Leon

In this paper we solve Friedmann equations by considering a universal media as a non-perfect fluid with bulk viscosity and is described by a general "gamma law" equation of state of the form $p= (\gamma -1) \rho + \Lambda(t)$, where the…

General Physics · Physics 2016-11-04 G. S. Khadekar , Saibal Ray , X. -H. Meng

We systematically study the evolution of the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe coupled with a cosmological constant $\Lambda$ and a perfect fluid that has the equation of state $p=w\rho$, where $p$ and $\rho$ denote, respectively,…

We study solutions of the Friedmann equations in case of the homogeneous isotropic Universe filled with a perfect fluid. The main points concern the monotony properties of the solutions, the possibility to extend the solutions on all times…

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