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The compatibility of cosmologic principles and possible large-scale inhomogeneities of the Universe is discussed. It seems that the strongest symmetry principle compatible with reasonable inhomogeneities is full conformal symmetry in the three-space defined by the cosmological velocity field; but even then the standard model is isolated from inhomogeneous ones when the whole evolution is considered.
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Lukaćs, B., Mészáros, A. Large-scale inhomogeneities and the cosmological principle. Astrophys Space Sci 114, 211–231 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00653966
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