COSMOLOGICAL THEORY WITHOUT SINGULARITIES

被引:190
作者
BRANDENBERGER, R [1 ]
MUKHANOV, V [1 ]
SORNBORGER, A [1 ]
机构
[1] SWISS FED INST TECHNOL, INST THEORET PHYS, CH-8093 ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1993年 / 48卷 / 04期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.48.1629
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
A theory of gravitation is constructed in which all homogeneous and isotropic solutions are nonsingular, and in which all curvature invariants are bounded. All solutions for which curvature invariants approach their limiting values approach de Sitter space. The action for this theory is obtained by a higher-derivative modification of Einstein's theory. We expect that our model can easily be generalized to solve the singularity problem also for anisotropic cosmologies.
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页码:1629 / 1642
页数:14
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