Effects of a nonvanishing cosmological constant on the spherically symmetric vacuum manifold
Abstract
The conformal structure of timelike 2-surfaces of the vacuum manifold is examined in detail in the cases when the cosmological constant, λ, is not assumed to be zero. For λ>0 with 3m<=Λ-12 it is shown that these surfaces constitute the junction of an infinite number of regions and that the complete manifold may be represented in a causal way by a finite number of regions.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- June 1977
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.15.3513
- Bibcode:
- 1977PhRvD..15.3513L
- Keywords:
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- Constants;
- Cosmology;
- Manifolds (Mathematics);
- Vacuum;
- Conformal Mapping;
- Field Theory (Physics);
- Symmetry;
- Astrophysics