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Title: Torsion and inflation
Authors: Sivaram, C
De Sabbata, V
Keywords: Big Bang Cosmology
Einstein Equations
Space-Time Functions
Scalars
Spin-Spin Coupling
Tensor Analysis
Torsion
Issue Date: Feb-1991
Publisher: Springer
Citation: Astrophysics and Space Science, Vol. 176, No. 1, pp. 141 - 144
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.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2248/3948
ISSN: 0004-640X
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