Remarks on the cosmological constant appearing as an initial condition for Milne-like spacetimes
Speaker:
Eric Ling, The Fields Institute
Date and Time:
Wednesday, August 24, 2022 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
Milne-like spacetimes are a class of k = -1 FLRW spacetimes which admit continuous extensions through the big bang. Under suitable assumptions on the scale factor, it was previously shown that the cosmological constant appears as an initial condition for Milne-like spacetimes; this yields a "quasi de Sitter" expansion for the early universe which could have applications to inflationary scenarios. In this talk, we generalize these results to spacetimes which share similar geometrical properties with Milne-like spacetimes but without any spatially isotropic or homogeneous assumptions.