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Robertson & Walker Spacetime

   

This solution is the one we use for the cosmology. It can have matter in it. It is the spacetime far from a star. The metric is

 

With .

It can be seen as a solution for our universe. The de Sitter metric can be seen as a particular case of k=+1.

The computation of the volume expansion for this spacetime are shown as an example in appendix gif.



Peggy Varniere
Fri Jul 24 11:57:38 EDT 1998