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On the spacetime connecting two aeons in conformal cyclic cosmology

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-11-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

As quotient spaces, Minkowski and de Sitter are fundamental, non-gravitational spacetimes for the construction of physical theories. When general relativity is constructed on a de Sitter spacetime, the usual Riemannian structure is replaced by a more general structure called de Sitter-Cartan geometry. In the contraction limit of an infinite cosmological term, the de Sitter-Cartan spacetime reduces to a singular, flat, conformal invariant four-dimensional cone spacetime, in which our ordinary notions of time interval and space distance are absent. It is shown that such spacetime satisfies all properties, including the Weyl curvature hypothesis, necessary to play the role of the bridging spacetime connecting two aeons in Penrose's conformal cyclic cosmology.

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@article{arxiv.1503.05005,
  title  = {On the spacetime connecting two aeons in conformal cyclic cosmology},
  author = {A. Araujo and H. Jennen and J. G. Pereira and A. C. Sampson and L. L. Savi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.05005},
  year   = {2015}
}

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15 pages. V2: presentation changes aiming at clarifying the text, matches published version

R2 v1 2026-06-22T08:55:05.918Z