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Asymptotic Behavior of Cosmologies with $\Lambda >0$ in 2+1 Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-04-22 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Differential Geometry

Abstract

We study, using Mean Curvature Flow methods, 2+1 dimensional cosmologies with a positive cosmological constant and matter satisfying the dominant and the strong energy conditions. If the spatial slices are compact with non-positive Euler characteristic and are initially expanding everywhere, then we prove that the spatial slices reach infinite volume, asymptotically converge on average to de Sitter and they become, almost everywhere, physically indistinguishable from de Sitter. This holds true notwithstanding the presence of initial arbitrarily-large density fluctuations and the formation of black holes.

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@article{arxiv.1902.00519,
  title  = {Asymptotic Behavior of Cosmologies with $\Lambda >0$ in 2+1 Dimensions},
  author = {Paolo Creminelli and Leonardo Senatore and András Vasy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.00519},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

18 pages, 3 figures; v2: minor corrections, CMP published version

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