Variations of Alpha in Space and Time

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2002-02-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0202129v2

Phys.Rev. D66 (2002) 043515

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, no figures. Final version: improved discussion and addition of new theorem excluding time oscillations

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.66.043515

We study inhomogeneous cosmological variations in the fine structure 'constant', $\alpha ,$ in Friedmann universes. Inhomogeneous motions of the scalar field driving changes in $\alpha $ display spatial oscillations that decrease in amplitude with increasing time. The inhomogeneous evolution quickly approaches that found for exact Friedmann universes. We prove a theorem to show that oscillations of $\alpha $ in time (or redshift) cannot occur in Friedmann universes in the BSBM theories considered here.

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