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Multiple nonspherical structures from the extrema of Szekeres scalars

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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 92, Issue 8, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.083533

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  1. CONACYT
  2. [DGAPA PAPIIT IA101414]
  3. [SEP-CONACYT 239639]

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We examine the spatial extrema (local maxima, minima and saddle points) of the covariant scalars (density, Hubble expansion, spatial curvature and eigenvalues of the shear and electric Weyl tensors) of the quasispherical Szekeres dust models. Sufficient conditions are obtained for the existence of distributions of multiple extrema in spatial comoving locations that can be prescribed through initial conditions. These distributions evolve without shell crossing singularities at least for ever expanding models (with or without cosmological constant) in the full evolution range where the models are valid. By considering the local maxima and minima of the density, our results allow for setting up elaborated networks of pancake shaped evolving cold dark matter overdensities and density voids whose spatial distribution and amplitudes can be controlled from initial data compatible with standard early Universe initial conditions. We believe that these results have an enormous range of potential application by providing a fully relativistic nonperturbative coarse grained modeling of cosmic structure at all scales.

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