1998/12/07 by Susan M. Scott, Geoffery Ericksson
Physics and Astronomy · #gr-qc
published as Proc. Int. Sem. Math. Cosmol., Potsdam 1998, Editors: M. Rainer, H.-J. Schmidt, WSPC Singapore, pp123-132 · 10 pages, 1 figure
arxiv created 1998/12/07 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
In 1985 Goode and Wainwright devised the concept of an isotropic singularity. Since that time, numerous authors have explored the interesting consequences, in mathematical cosmology, of assuming the existence of this type of singularity. In this paper, we collate all examples of cosmological models which are known to admit an isotropic singularity, and make a number of observations regarding their general characteristics.