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Cosmological Acceleration from Gravitational Waves

General Physics 2016-04-26 v2

Abstract

It is shown that the classical gravitational waves of super-horizon wavelengths are able to form the de Sitter accelerated expansion of the empty (with no matter fields) Universe. The contemporary Universe is about 70% empty and asymptotically is going to become completely empty, so the effect caused by emptiness should be already very noticeable. It could manifest itself as the dark energy.

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@article{arxiv.1512.03659,
  title  = {Cosmological Acceleration from Gravitational Waves},
  author = {Leonid Marochnik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.03659},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

This paper has been withdrawn by the author because it was incorporated into arXiv:1508.07312 which is already published

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