Poincaré dodecahedral space parameter estimates

2008/07/31 by Boudewijn F. Roukema, B. F. Roukema, Zbigniew Bulinski +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:200810685

published as Astronomy & Astrophysics 492 (2008) 673 · 18 pages, 19 figures, accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics, software available at http://cosmo.torun.pl/GPLdownload/dodec/ and MCMCs at http://cosmo.torun.pl/GPLdownload/MCMC/ ; v2: histograms added, several minor changes, matches accepted version

arxiv created 2008/10/31 · openalex publication_date 2008/11/06 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31

Abstract

Context. Several studies have proposed that the preferred model of the comoving spatial 3-hypersurface of the Universe may be a Poincaré dodecahedral space (PDS) rather than a simply connected, infinite, flat space.

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