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Bianchi solutions of quadratic gravity
It is believed that soon after the Planck time, Einstein's general relativity
theory should be corrected to an effective quadratic theory. Numerical
solutions for the anisotropic generalization of the Friedmann "open" model for this effective gravity are given. It must be emphasized that although
numeric, these solutions are exact in the sense that they depend only on the
precision of the machine. The solutions are identified asymptotically in a
certain way. It is found solutions which asymptote de Sitter space, Riemann
flat space and a singularity. The question of isotropisation of an initially
anisotropic Universe is of great importance in the context of cosmology.
Although isotropisation is not directly discussed in this present work, we show
that sufficiently small anisotropies, do not increase indefinitely according to
particular quadratic gravity theories. It can be understood as weak
isotropisation, and we stress that this result is strongly dependent on initial
conditions.Comment: version accepted for publication in General Relativity and
Gravitation. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1203.688