Otro
Kinematics of a spacetime with an infinite cosmological constant
Registro en:
Foundations of Physics. New York: Kluwer Academic/plenum Publ, v. 33, n. 4, p. 613-624, 2003.
0015-9018
10.1023/A:1023770620200
WOS:000182925300004
Autor
Aldrovandi, R.
Barbosa, A. L.
Calcada, M.
Pereira, J. G.
Resumen
A solution of the sourceless Einstein's equation with an infinite value for the cosmological constant L is discussed by using Inonu-Wigner contractions of the de Sitter groups and spaces. When Lambda --> infinity, spacetime becomes a four-dimensional cone, dual to Minkowski space by a spacetime inversion. This inversion relates the four-cone vertex to the infinity of Minkowski space, and the four-cone infinity to the Minkowski light-cone. The non-relativistic limit c --> infinity. is further considered, the kinematical group in this case being a modified Galilei group in which the space and time translations are replaced by the non-relativistic limits of the corresponding proper conformal transformations. This group presents the same abstract Lie algebra as the Galilei group and can be named the conformal Galilei group. The results may be of interest to the early Universe Cosmology.