Torsion and inflation

dc.contributor.author	Sivaram, C
dc.contributor.author	De Sabbata, V
dc.date.accessioned	2008-10-16T09:46:42Z
dc.date.available	2008-10-16T09:46:42Z
dc.date.issued	1991-02
dc.identifier.citation	Astrophysics and Space Science, Vol. 176, No. 1, pp. 141 - 144	en
dc.identifier.issn	0004-640X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2248/3948
dc.description.abstract	The effects of torsion in the early universe on the subsequent evolution are investigated theoretically. The focus is on the simple Einstein-Cartan generalization of conventional big-bang cosmology studied by de Sabbata and Sivaram (1989), but here a massless scalar field with no quartic self-coupling is considered. As in the case with a massive field, a torsion-dominated phase in the early universe leads naturally to negative pressure and inflationary expansion.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Springer	en
dc.relation.uri	http://www.springerlink.com/content/t426x2766357l3pp/	en
dc.subject	Big Bang Cosmology	en
dc.subject	Einstein Equations	en
dc.subject	Space-Time Functions	en
dc.subject	Scalars	en
dc.subject	Spin-Spin Coupling	en
dc.subject	Tensor Analysis	en
dc.subject	Torsion	en
dc.title	Torsion and inflation	en
dc.type	Article	en