Conformal transformations and the beginning of the Universe

Abstract

We show that two consecutive Universes with positive cosmological constants filled with perfect fluids and conformal to the positive-spatial-curvature FLRW metric by an analytic conformal transformation have the following features implied by the Einstein equations: a) the fluids can only belong to 4 classes (radiation, dust and two other classes with negative pressures corresponding to a gas of strings and a gas of domain walls), b) the field equations on both sides of the future/eternity hypersurface exhibit certain duality with the Einstein Universe at the background, and c) both eons (one at the end, and the other at the beginning) are almost critical, so that the future eon is dominated by radiation and resembles the beginning of our Universe.

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