Gravitational Waves in Closed Universes
Abstract
New boundary conditions on the Einstein-Rosen-Bondi gravitational-wave metrics yield closed inhomogeneous universes which solve Einstein's vacuum field equations exactly. Space sections of these universes have either the three-sphere topology S3 or the wormhole (hypertorus) topology S1⊗S2.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- September 1971
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.27.826
- Bibcode:
- 1971PhRvL..27..826G