Year: 1999
Type: article
Abstract: Morrow-Jones and Witt have shown that generic spatial topologies admit initial data that evolve to locally de Sitter spacetimes under Einstein's equations. We simplify their arguments, make them a little more general, and solve for the global time evolution of the wormhole initial data considered by them. Finally, we give explicit examples of locally de Sitter domains of development whose universal covers cannot be embedded in de Sitter space.
Source: Classical and Quantum Gravity
Authors: Ingemar Bengtsson, Sören Holst
Institution: Stockholm University
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2000144415