Friedmann cosmology and almost isotropy
Friedmann cosmology and almost isotropy
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弗里德曼宇宙论和几乎各向同性
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2003
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C. Sormani
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C. Sormani
AbstractIn the Friedmann model of the universe, cosmologists assume
that spacelike slices of the universe are Riemannian manifolds of constant
sectional curvature. This assumption is justified via Schur’s theorem by
stating that the spacelike universe is locally isotropic. Here we define a
Riemannian manifold as almost locally isotropic in a sense which allows
both weak gravitational lensing in all directions and strong gravitational
lensing in localized angular regions at most points. We then prove that
such a manifold is Gromov-Hausdorff close to a length space Y which is
a collection of space forms joined at discrete points. Within the paper we
de.ne a concept we call an “exponential length space” and prove that if
such a space is locally isotropic then it is a space form.