Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-10-27
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, no figures. Submitted to CQG
Scientific paper
It is shown here how prior estimates on the local shape of the universe can be used to reduce, to a small region, the full parameter space for the search of circles in the sky. This is the first step towards the development of efficient estrategies to look for these matched circles in order to detect a possible nontrivial topology of our Universe. It is shown how to calculate the unique point, in the parameter space, representing a pair of matched circles corresponding to a given isometry $g$ (and its inverse). As a consequence, (i) given some fine estimates of the covering group $\Gamma$ of the spatial section of our universe, it is possible to confine, in a very effective way, the region of the parameter space in which to perform the searches for matched circles, and reciprocally (ii) once identified such pairs of matched circles, one could determine with greater precision the topology of our Universe and our location within it.
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