Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-02-07
Astron.Astrophys.463:861,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 8 figures, accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics; v2 includes 3D calculation and result; v3 includes analysis of nume
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20064979
Could cosmic topology imply dark energy? We use a weak field (Newtonian) approximation of gravity and consider the gravitational effect from distant, multiple copies of a large, collapsed (virialised) object today (i.e. a massive galaxy cluster), taking into account the finite propagation speed of gravity, in a flat, multiply connected universe, and assume that due to a prior epoch of fast expansion (e.g. inflation), the gravitational effect of the distant copies is felt locally, from beyond the naively calculated horizon. We find that for a universe with a $T^1xR^2$ spatial section, the residual Newtonian gravitational force (to first order) provides an anisotropic effect that repels test particles from the cluster in the compact direction, in a way algebraically similar to that of dark energy. For a typical test object at comoving distance $\chi$ from the nearest dense nodes of the cosmic web of density perturbations, the pressure-to-density ratio $w$ of the equation of state in an FLRW universe, is w \sim - (\chi/L)^3, where $L$ is the size of the fundamental domain, i.e. of the universe. Clearly, |w|<<1. For a T^3 spatial section of exactly equal fundamental lengths, the effect cancels to zero. For a T^3 spatial section of unequal fundamental lengths, the acceleration effect is anisotropic in the sense that it will *tend to equalise the three fundamental lengths*. Provided that at least a modest amount of inflation occurred in the early Universe, and given some other conditions, multiple connectedness does generate an effect similar to that of dark energy, but the amplitude of the effect at the present epoch is too small to explain the observed dark energy density and its anisotropy makes it an unrealistic candidate for the observed dark energy.
Bajtlik Stanislaw
Biesiada Marek
Jurkiewicz Helena
Roukema Boudewijn F.
Szaniewska Agnieszka
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