https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-13799-6
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Big Bang in dipole cosmology
1
Department of Astronomy and High Energy Physics, Faculty of Physics, Kharazmi University, 15719-14911, Tehran, Iran
2
The Abdus Salam ICTP, Strada Costiera 11, 34014, Trieste, Italy
3
Center for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, 560012, Bangalore, India
4
School of Physics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), P.O. Box 19395-5531, Tehran, Iran
Received:
18
October
2024
Accepted:
10
January
2025
Published online:
31
January
2025
We continue the study of dipole cosmology framework put forward in Krishnan et al. (JCAP 07:020, 2023), a beyond FLRW setting that has a preferred direction in the metric which may be associated with a cosmological tilt, a cosmic dipole. In this setup the shear and the tilt can be positive or negative given the dipole direction. We thoroughly analyze evolution of the universe in this setting, particularly focusing on the behaviour near the Big Bang (BB). We first analyze a single fluid model with a generic constant equation of state w. While details of the behavior near the BB depends on w and the other initial conditions, we find that when the shear is negative we have a shear dominated BB singularity, whereas for a positive shear we have a much milder singularity, the whimper singularity (Ellis and King in Commun Math Phys 38:119–156, 1974), at which the tilt blows up while curvature invariants remain finite. We then consider dipole CDM model which besides the shear has two tilt parameters, one for radiation and one for the pressureless matter. For positive (negative) shear we again find whimper (curvature) singularity near the BB. Moreover, when the tilt parameters have opposite signs, the shear can change sign from negative to positive in the course of evolution of the Universe. We show that the relative tilt of the radiation and the matter generically remains sizable at late times.
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