1999/12/15 by J. -F. Pascual-Sánchez, J.‐F. Pascual‐Sánchez, Pascual-Sánchez, J. -F.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #astro-ph #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9912061
5 pages, LaTex, to appear in Proceedings of Spanish Relativity Meeting, ERE 99
arxiv created 1999/12/15 · openalex publication_date 1999/12/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this work, I develop an alternative explanation for the acceleration of the cosmic expansion, which seems to be a result of recent high redshift Supernova data. In the current interpretation, this cosmic acceleration is explained by including a positive cosmological constant term (or vacuum energy), in the standard Friedmann models. Instead, I will consider a Locally Rotationally Symmetric (LRS) and spherically symmetric (SS), but inhomogeneous spacetime, with a barotropic perfect fluid equation of state for the cosmic matter. The congruence of matter has acceleration, shear and expansion. Within this framework the kinematical acceleration of the cosmic fluid or, equivalently, the inhomogeneity of matter, is just the responsible of the SNe Ia measured cosmic acceleration. Although in our model the Cosmological Principle is relaxed, it maintains almost isotropy about our worldline in agreement with CBR observations.