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arxiv: gr-qc/0110043 · v1 · submitted 2001-10-08 · 🌀 gr-qc

Cosmological anomalies and exotic smoothness structures

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keywords exoticmatteranomaliescosmologicalstandardstructuresacceleratingaccepted
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It seems to be generally accepted that apparently anomalous cosmological observations, such as accelerating expansion, etc., necessarily are inconsistent with standard general relativity and standard matter sources. Following the suggestions of S{\l}adkowski, we point out that in addition to exotic theories and exotic matter there is another possibility. We refer to exotic differential structures on ${\mathbb R}^4$ which could be the source of the observed anomalies without changing the Einstein equations or introducing strange forms of matter.

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