Inhomogeneity-Induced Cosmic Acceleration in a Dust Universe

Details Inhomogeneity-Induced Cosmic Acceleration in a Dust Universe Inhomogeneity-Induced Cosmic Acceleration in a Dust Universe

2005-12-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512651v3

Class.Quant.Grav.25:175001,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

41 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables; final version for publication

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/25/17/175001

It is the common consensus that the expansion of a universe always slows down if the gravity provided by the energy sources therein is attractive and accordingly one needs to invoke dark energy as a source of anti-gravity for understanding the cosmic acceleration. To examine this point we find counter-examples for a spherically symmetric dust fluid described by the Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi solution without singularity. Thus, the validity of this naive consensus is indeed doubtful and the effects of inhomogeneities should be restudied. These counter-intuitive examples open a new perspective on the understanding of the evolution of our universe.

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