Stephani cosmology: entropically viable but observationally challenged

Abstract Inhomogeneous cosmological models such as the Stephani universes could, in principle, provide an explanation for the observed accelerated expansion of the Universe. Working with a concrete, popular model of the Stephani cosmology – the Stephani-Da̧browski model, we found that it is entropic...

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Main Authors: Yen Chin Ong, S. Sedigheh Hashemi, Rui An, Bin Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-05-01
Series:European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5866-1