WHITROW-RANDALL RELATION AND BRANS-DICKE COSMOLOGY REVISITED

Authors
BEESHAM A
Citation
A. Beesham, WHITROW-RANDALL RELATION AND BRANS-DICKE COSMOLOGY REVISITED, General relativity and gravitation, 27(1), 1995, pp. 15-21
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
General relativity and gravitation → ACNP
ISSN journal
00017701
Volume
27
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
15 - 21
Database
ISI
SICI code
0001-7701(1995)27:1<15:WRABCR>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
The homogeneous and isotropic Brans-Dicke cosmological solutions satis fying Whitrow-Randall's relation which have been discussed recently by Berman and Som are re-examined. After correcting an error in their wo rk, we extend their results and present the most general solution by s olving a differential equation completely. We show that Mach's assumpt ion leads to power-law solutions in the Euclidean case.