On the Weyl curvature hypothesis
Abstract
The Weyl curvature hypothesis of Penrose attempts to explain the high homogeneity and isotropy, and the very low entropy of the early universe, by conjecturing the vanishing of the Weyl tensor at the Big-Bang singularity.
- Publication:
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Annals of Physics
- Pub Date:
- November 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.aop.2013.08.002
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1203.3382
- Bibcode:
- 2013AnPhy.338..186S
- Keywords:
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- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics;
- Mathematical Physics;
- Mathematics - Differential Geometry
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, slides at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003491613001711