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Isotropic cosmological singularities 1: Polytropic perfect fluid spacetimes
- Abstract:
- We consider the conformal Einstein equations for polytropic perfect fluid cosmologies which admit an isotropic singularity. For the polytropic index gamma strictly greater than 1 and less than or equal to 2 it is shown that the Cauchy problem for these equations is well-posed, that is to say that solutions exist, are unique and depend smoothly on the data, with data consisting of simply the 3-metric of the singularity. The analogous result for gamma=1 (dust) is obtained when Bianchi type symmetry is assumed.
- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Annals Phys.
- Volume:
- 276
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 257-293
- Publication date:
- 1999-03-02
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0003-4916
- Source identifiers:
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22630
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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pubs:22630
- UUID:
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uuid:3e51bfce-47a7-483e-8709-532d92385d02
- Local pid:
- pubs:22630
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 1999
- Notes:
- LaTeX, 43 pages, no figures, submitted to Ann. Phys
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