New Singularity and Existence of Solutions in Anisotropic, Time-Dependent Maximally Gauss-Bonnet Extended Gravity

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Feb 1991

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Thesis (PH.D.)--UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY, 1991.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-03, Section: B, page: 1414

Computer Science

Gravitational Lagrangian

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Some unification theories, including superstring theories, suggest spacetimes of higher dimensions than four. We consider the maximally Gauss-Bonnet extended Einstein Lagrangian, commonly known as the Lovelock Lagrangian, as a viable candidate for a gravitational Lagrangian that generalizes Einstein's theory in such higher dimensional spacetimes. In this dissertation, motivated by the success of the Kasner cosmology, we study the diagonal metric, time-dependent, homogeneous cosmology based on the Lovelock Lagrangian. We use the Palatini variation to obtain the field equations from the Lagrangian. The field equations are then integrated to obtain the most general diagonal metric, time-dependent, anisotropic solution. The solutions obtained are not in a desirable form; they are algebraic expressions of a time variable in terms of metric variables whereas we would like to have expressions of the metric variables as functions of a time variable. We prove three theorems regarding the conditions under which this inversion is possible. It is shown that, for certain solutions we found, the second time derivatives of the metric components of the solution, rather than the metric components, diverge, and this forces a certain curvature invariant to diverge. Thus, the singularity behavior of these solutions we found differs from the classical Kasner solution. Perturbative solutions both emerging from and evolving toward a singularity are obtained. The equation of geodesic deviation is solved perturbatively to show that the co-moving coordinates do not break down at a singularity.

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