The shared causal pasts and futures of cosmological events

We derive criteria for whether two cosmological events can have a shared causal past or a shared causal future, assuming a Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) universe with best-fit cosmological parameters from the Planck satellite. We further derive criteria for whether either cosmic event c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kaiser, David I., Gallicchio, Jason, Friedman, Andrew Samuel
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81382
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5054-6744