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Cosmological aspects of the Eisenhart-Duval lift

arXiv:1802.03370 · doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5789-x

Abstract

A cosmological extension of the Eisenhart-Duval metric is constructed by incorporating a cosmic scale factor and the energy-momentum tensor into the scheme. The dynamics of the spacetime is governed the Ermakov-Milne-Pinney equation. Killing isometries include spatial translations and rotations, Newton--Hooke boosts and translation in the null direction. Geodesic motion in Ermakov-Milne-Pinney cosmoi is analyzed. The derivation of the Ermakov-Lewis invariant, the Friedmann equations and the Dmitriev-Zel'dovich equations within the Eisenhart--Duval framework is presented.

Minor corrections and precisions, a couple of references added. 34 pages, 3 figures. To be published in European Physical Journal C

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