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Astrophysical observations provide a picture of the universe as a 4-dim homogeneous and isotropic flat space-time dominated by an unknown form of dark energy. To achieve such a cosmology one has to consider in the early universe an inflationary era able to overcome problems of standard cosmological models.
Here an inhomogeneous model is proposed which allows to obtain a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker behaviour far away from the inhomogeneities and it naturally describes structures formation.
We also obtain that the cosmological term does not prevent structure formation, avoiding a fine tuning problem in initial conditions.
The asymptotic exact solution have been calculated. A simple test with universe age prediction has been performed. A relation between the inhomogeneity, the breaking of time reversal, parity and the matter-antimatter asymmetry is briefly discussed.
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Canfora, F., Troisi, A. Cosmological Consequences of an Inhomogeneous Space-Time. General Relativity and Gravitation 36, 373–385 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:GERG.0000010482.94289.8c
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