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    The FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric (FLRW; /ˈfriːdmən ləˈmɛtrə ... /) is a metric based on an exact solution of the Einstein field equations...
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    derived by Alexander Friedmann in 1922 from Einstein's field equations of gravitation for the FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric and a perfect fluid...
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    the Hubble–Lemaître law. The lunar crater Lemaître FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric Lemaître coordinates Hubble–Lemaître law Lemaître observers...
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    called the FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric, or FLRW, after Friedmann, Georges Lemaître, Howard P. Robertson and Arthur Geoffrey Walker, who worked...
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    cosmology. It can be modeled mathematically with the FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric (FLRW), where it corresponds to an increase in the scale...
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    cosmological principle and assumed by all models that use the FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric, including the current version of the ΛCDM model, or is...
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    In physics, the Lemaître–Tolman metric, also known as the Lemaître–Tolman–Bondi metric or the Tolman metric, is a Lorentzian metric based on an exact...
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  • evolution of the scale factor in the FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric is obtained solving the Friedmann equations: a ( t ) ∝ t 1 / 2 . {\displaystyle...
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  • Alcubierre metric, de Sitter/anti-de Sitter metrics, FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric, Isotropic coordinates, Lemaître–Tolman metric, Peres metric, Rindler...
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  • Lemaître: Lemaître (crater), an impact crater on the Moon 1565 Lemaître, a minor planet the FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric the Lemaître metric...
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    horizon.[citation needed] The model uses the FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric, the Friedmann equations, and the cosmological equations of state...
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    computed by the following formula (derived using the FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric): χ = ∫ t e t c d t ′ a ( t ′ ) {\displaystyle \chi =\int...
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    is often visualized as curved spacetime. The FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric is a curved metric which forms the current foundation for the description...
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  • space-time with no appeal to homogeneity or isotropy. The FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric is given by d s = d t 2 − a 2 ( t ) d x i d x i {\displaystyle...
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    a Big Bounce, or a Big Crunch. Cosmological constant FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric High-Z Supernova Search Team Lambda-CDM model List of...
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  • ( t ) {\displaystyle a(t)} is the scale factor of the FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric, and we have taken the Big Bang to be at t = 0 {\displaystyle...
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  • the cosmological principle is correct, is the FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric the right metric to use for our universe? Are the observations...
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    was emitted, we may first note that according to the FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric, which is used to model the expanding universe, if we...
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  • Rosen's universe is zero in any universe compliant with a FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric, and proposed a mechanism of inflation-driven generation...
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    \sum _{j=1}^{D-1}p_{j}^{2}={\frac {1}{D-1}}\neq 1.} The FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric employed in cosmology, by contrast, is able to expand...
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  • kinematics of the observable universe, dependent on the FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric but independent of the temporal dependence of the scale...
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  • described as a cosmological model for a flat matter-only FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric (FLRW) universe. In the model, Einstein and de Sitter...
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    cosmological principle and assumed by all models that use the FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric, including the current version of the ΛCDM model, or is...
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  • tensors not simply obtained from Killing vectors. The FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric, widely used in cosmology, has spacelike Killing vectors...
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  • decomposition of the most general linearized perturbations of the FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric into components according to their transformations under...
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    part of background metrics for some cosmological models; for example, the three cases of the FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric may be represented...
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  • by Arthur Geoffrey Walker in 1936, and is today widely known in the United States as the RobertsonWalker metric. One of Robertson's landmark papers, a...
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    matter) density of a substance and its pressure. In the FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric, it can be shown that a strong constant negative pressure...
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  • In Einstein's theory of general relativity, the Schwarzschild metric (also known as the Schwarzschild solution) is an exact solution to the Einstein field...
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  • without major pitfalls. In practice, some metrics, notably the FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric that appears to govern the universe, do not...
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