Electromagnetic Field in Some Anisotropic Stiff Fluid Universes

The electromagnetic field is studied in a family of exact solutions of the Einstein equations whose material content is a perfect fluid with stiff equation of state (p = $\epsilon$ ). The field equations are solved exactly for several members of the family.Comment: 6 pages, REVTEX,no figure

Cosmic Strings from N=2, D=5 Supergravity

Exact solutions of N=2 supergravity in five dimensions are found in the metric with cylindrical symmetry, a particular case corresponds to the exterior of a cosmic string.Comment: 5 pages, plain LATEX,no figure

Effects of Bulk Viscosity on Cosmological Evolution

The effect of bulk viscisity on the evolution of the homogeneous and isotropic cosmological models is considered. Solutions are found, with a barotropic equation of state, and a viscosity coefficient that is proportional to a power of the energy density of the universe. For flat space, power law expansions, related to extended inflation are found as well as exponential solutions, related to old inflation; also a solution with expansion that is an exponential of an exponential of the time is found.Comment: 8 pages, latex, no figure

Bianchi Type I Cosmology in N=2, D=5 Supergravity

The dynamics and evolution of Bianchi type I space-times is considered in the framework of the four-dimensional truncation of a reduced theory obtained from the N=2,D=5 supergravity. The general solution of the gravitational field equations can be represented in an exact parametric form. All solutions have a singular behavior at the initial/final moment, except when the space-time geometry reduces to the isotropic flat case. Generically the obtained cosmological models describe an anisotropic, expanding or collapsing, singular Universe with a non-inflationary evolution for all times.Comment: revised version to appear in PR

Cosmologies with scalar fields from higher dimensions applied to Bianchi type VIh=−1\rm VI_{h=-1} model: classical and quantum solutions

In this work we construct an effective four-dimensional model by compactifying a ten-dimensional theory of gravity coupled with a real scalar dilaton field on a time-dependent torus. The corresponding action in four dimensions is similar to the action of K-essence theories. This approach is applied to anisotropic cosmological Bianchi type $VI_{(h=-1)}$ model for which we study the classical coupling of the anisotropic scale factors with the two real scalar moduli produced by the compactification process. The classical Einstein field equations give us a hidden symmetry, corresponding to equal radii B=C, which permits us to solve exactly the equations of motion. With this hidden symmetry, then we solve the FRW, finding that the scale factor goes to B radii. Also the corresponding Wheeler-DeWitt (WDW) equation in the context of Standard Quantum Cosmology is solved. Bohm's formalism for this cosmological model is revisited too.Comment: 13 pages, 1 figur