Cosmological solutions of the Einstein-Friedmann equations ...
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Cosmology<br />
The critical energy density and <strong>the</strong> flatness problem<br />
In general we have some mixture <strong>of</strong> vacuum energy, relativistic and non-relativistic<br />
matter. We have seen that <strong>the</strong> <strong>Einstein</strong>-de Sitter universe with k=0 plays a special<br />
role. In <strong>the</strong> present matter dominated era ρEdS plays <strong>the</strong> boundary case between<br />
expansion forever or recontraction. We <strong>the</strong>refore define<br />
ρ0,crit = ρEdS = 3H2 0<br />
8πGN = 1.878 × 10−29 h 2 gr/cm 3 ,<br />
where H0 is <strong>the</strong> present Hubble constant, and h its value in units <strong>of</strong> 100 km s −1<br />
Mpc −1 , and express <strong>the</strong> energy density in units <strong>of</strong> ρ0,crit.<br />
c○ 2009, F. Jegerlehner ≪❘ Lect. 7 ❘≫ 470