Journal Articles Classical and Quantum Gravity Year : 2002

Eigenmodes of three-dimensional spherical spaces and their application to cosmology

Roland Lehoucq
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Jeffrey Weeks
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Evelise Gausmann
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Abstract

This paper investigates the computation of the eigenmodes of the Laplacian operator in multi-connected three-dimensional spherical spaces. General mathematical results and analytical solutions for lens and prism spaces are presented. Three complementary numerical methods are developed and compared with our analytic results and previous investigations. The cosmological applications of these results are discussed, focusing on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. In particular, whereas in the Euclidean case too-small universes are excluded by present CMB data, in the spherical case, candidate topologies will always exist even if the total energy density parameter of the universe is very close to unity.

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hal-04111069 , version 1 (31-05-2023)

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Roland Lehoucq, Jeffrey Weeks, Jean-Philippe Uzan, Evelise Gausmann, Jean-Pierre Luminet. Eigenmodes of three-dimensional spherical spaces and their application to cosmology. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2002, 19, pp.4683-4708. ⟨10.1088/0264-9381/19/18/305⟩. ⟨hal-04111069⟩
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