SOME RELATIVISTIC COSMOLOGICAL MODELS

The purpose of this paper is to present the spatially homogeneous dust models which do not permit a simply transitive group of motions. I wi sh to thank my supervising Professor R. K. Sachs for suggesting this p roblem and for the many suggestions he made during the calculations. I would also like to thank the other members of my committee, Professor E. L. Schucking, Professor J. Ehlers, and Professor R. P. Kerr, for t heir suggestions; and Dr. George Ellis for finding an error in an earl ier draft of this paper. I would like to thank the National Science Fo undation for financial support in the form of a Cooperative Fellowship . I would also like to thank my wife for typing this entire dissertati on. This work was supported by the Air Force Contract AF 33(615)1029.