1. Introduction
In cosmology, we have two important constants to be determined. They are cosmic curvature
K and cosmological constant
. Some characteristic parameters of the universe, such as the age
, Hubble constant
, total mass density
, etc., have been measured to high accuracy [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6]. To determine the cosmic curvature
K, the usual approach is to transform the Friedmann equation into an algebraic equation
. In theory,
can be judged by contrasting observational data
or
. From the observations we have
, which is very close to the case of flat space. Considering measurement errors, it is hard to determine what type the space is. In fact, no matter what the case of spatial curvature is, for a young universe, it is easy to calculate that we always have
. So this criterion is rather ambiguous.
Cosmological constant
has a dramatic history. Since Einstein introduced
in 1917 to get a static and closed universe, the debate over whether
is zero or not has been repeated many times [
7,
8,
9]. Now dark matter and dark energy are attracting the attention of scientists around the world, becoming the hottest topic, challenging traditional standard models of particle and cosmology. The usual description of dark matter and dark energy uses the equation of state
and
or
, and many specific models have been obtained by fitting the observed data [
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14]. However, the problem is far from being solved [
15].
In [
12], by introducing the potential function
, the Friedmann equations with some known dark energy models are converted into Hamiltonian dynamics, and the evolving trajectory is analyzed to explain the accelerating expansion of the universe. The literatures [
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22] provide some similar discussion on specific gravitational sources. The nonlinear scalar fields were discussed in reference [
16,
17,
18] to obtain the cyclic universe model. In [
19], a set of precise cyclic solutions with ordinary dust and radiation are obtained, and in [
20], the exact solutions of ghost and electromagnetic fields are derived. The quantized nonlinear spinor fields and trajectories are calculated and a cyclic solution
is solved in [
21,
22]. In [
23,
24], the authors use
phase plane to discuss the dynamical behavior of the universe, and conclude that a cyclical universe is reasonable from a dynamical systems perspective, and requires in addition to standard cosmological assumptions, only two conditions: (i) the spatial sections must have positive spatial curvature
, and (ii) the late time effective cosmological “constant” must decay fast enough as a function of the scale factor. Both of these conditions are consistent with all current observations to date. In 2008, M. Novello and S. E. Perez Bergliaffa reviewed the general features of nonsingular universes and cyclic universes, discussed the mechanisms behind the bounce, and analyzed examples of solutions that implement these mechanisms [
25].
In [
26], after analyzing the Planck Legacy 2018 release, the authors found enhanced gravitational lens amplitude in the power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is different from the data of the standard
CDM model. The cosmic space is more like a giant balloon that is closed and curved. The main task of the Planck satellite is to detect the tiny fluctuation of the CMB temperature. The study of the fluctuation of the CMB temperature is the key to uncover the relevant cosmological models and parameters. This information defines the expansion, composition and origin of the cosmic large-scale structure. The authors use ‘closed universe’ to explain this anomalous effect. The spectra are now more inclined to a positive curvature greater than 99% confidence level. The positive curvature can explain the anomalous amplitude of the gravitational lens.
This paper is a development of [
21,
27]. In [
21], the calculations showed the term
is a higher order infinitesimal as
, so its influence on the behavior of the early universe is negligible. Some nonlinear effects of the matter fields should be important for the early behavior. The calculations show that the nonlinear potential of spinors leads to a higher order term
, which is equivalent to negative pressure and becomes dominant factor for the behavior of the early universe. In [
27], we showed that the global behavior of Friedmann equation is mainly determined by two hypotheses of positive mass density and initial negative pressure. In order to verify the reasonability of the two hypotheses, some contents were added continually, and we obtain the present paper.
Under two ordinary hypotheses for functions of state, namely the total mass density of all matter is always positive, and the initial total pressure is negative, by qualitatively analyzing the global behavior of the dynamical equation of cosmological model, we get the following results: the global spatial structure of the universe should be a closed 3-d sphere , the cosmological constant should be zero or a tiny number and the initial singularity of the universe is unreachable, and the evolution of universe should be cyclic in time. Obviously, these conclusions will be very helpful to correct some popular misconceptions and bring great convenience in further researching other problems in cosmology such as the properties of dark matter and dark energy.
2. Energy-Momentum Tensor of Matter
In order to understand the mystery and dynamically behavior of the universe, Energy-momentum tensor(EMT) and equation of state(EOS) of all kinds of matter are crucial factors. In this paper, we establish EMT and EOS of some elementary components according to credible theories in detail. Cosmology contains a variety of contents, so it is necessary to clarify the conventions and notations frequently used in the paper at first. The line element of the space-time is given by [
28]
where
and
are tetrad expressed by Dirac matrices
which satisfies the
Clifford algebra
The Pauli matrices are expressed by
where
. We take
as unit of speed. For index, we use the Greek characters for curvilinear coordinates, Latin characters for local Minkowski coordinates and
for spatial indices. The Einstein’s summation is used.
Similarly to the case of metric
, the definition of Ricci tensor can also differ by a negative sign. We take the definition as follows
Since the Lagrangian of a compound physical system is a superposable real scalar, in cosmology the Lagrangian of main kinds of gravitational sources is generally given by
in which
,
is the cosmological constant,
the total Lagrangian of all matter.
where
is the global slow-roll scalar field.
is the Lagrangian of ideal dust, whose statistical average is perfect fluid model.
is the speed of
n-th particle in usual sense.
is the Lagrangian for spinors with nonlinear potential
, electromagnetic potential
and strong short distance interaction
, in which the momentum operator
where
is current operator and
spin operator. They are defined respectively by
is Keller connection and
is Gu-Nester potential. They are calculated by [
28,
29,
30,
31].
If the metric of the space-time can be orthogonalized, we have
, so the spin-gravity coupling term
in cosmology.
means taking real part of a complex number. In this paper we take the following simplest nonlinear potential as example to show its dynamical effects in cosmology
The Hamiltonian formalism and classical mechanics can be clearly described only in the Gu’s natural coordinate system [
32]
where
defines the Newton’s realistic cosmic time, which is different from the proper time of a particle
. The Dirac-
is defined as
which means
. Only scalar, spinor and vector fields can construct a proper Lagrangian [
22], so (
7)–(
10) become the representation of all kinds of matter. In cosmology, to study them clearly is enough for theoretical analysis.
Variation of the Lagrangian (
6) with respect to
, we get Einstein’s field equation
where
is the Euler derivative, and
is EMT of all matter defined by
By calculation, we have [
22,
31,
33]
and
In (
21)
for
decomposition of metric.
For classical approximation of (
21), we have [
30,
31]
Substituting (
24) into (
21) and noticing
, we have
So, we get the classical approximation for EMT of dark spinor with self-interaction
acts like negative pressure and takes the place of cosmological constant
in Equation (
16). If
, the spinor moves along geodesic like a mass-point. Some researchers studied varying cosmological ‘constant’ [
34,
35,
36,
37,
38,
39,
40,
41], but a directly varying
violates covariance of dynamics. The following calculation discloses that the main physical origin of a covariant
may be just the nonlinear potential
.
For energy-momentum tensor, we have the following useful theorem, which means the energy-momentum of any independent system is conserved respectively.
Theorem 1. Assume matter consists of two subsystems I and II, namely , then we haveIf the subsystems I and II have not interaction with each other, namely,then the two subsystems have independent energy-momentum conservation laws respectively, Proof. By the definition of EMT (
17), the variation
is a linear mapping, so (
27) holds. By (
28), the variables
and
have decoupling dynamic equations. Since the dynamics of variables is sufficient condition of energy-momentum conservation law, we can derive
from dynamic equation of
, and
from dynamic equation of
independently, so (
29) holds. The proof is completed. □
By Theorem 1, we find in (
7) the slow-roll scalar
have not interaction with other components of matter, so we have
. In (
8), each particle of ideal gas has not interaction with other components, so each particle satisfies energy-momentum conservation law. For
k-th particle, by (
20) we have
By
, we get geodesic equation for
k-th particle
Therefore, for ideal mass point, energy momentum conservation law is equivalent to dynamics. For perfect fluid model, also gives dynamical equations, but an additional equation of state is needed and some information of the system is lost in the simplification of fluid.
If
or
, spinor
interacts with
or
, so we should take it as one system. For an isolated particle, the classical approximation of static
or
of the particle can be treated as an additional mass
due to linearity of
and
. We calculate
in the next section. The propagating
is photon, which can be treated as massless particles. Thus except the global scalar
, the classical approximation of EMT for other fields is usually depicted by
The statistical expectation of nonlinear potentials is function of state
which acts like negative pressure. By (
14) we find
is scale dependent, so we have
.
The following calculation discloses that the function of state
may be partly the physical origin of cosmological ‘constant’
. By the energy-momentum conservation law
of (
32), we have equation of motion for dark spinor gas
The Equation (
33) is non-geodesic, which is quite different from the geodesic equation
for ordinary particles, thus the dark halo in a galaxy is automatically separated from ordinary matter during galaxy formation [
31,
42].
4. Dynamical Constraints on and
Since the Friedmann equation is a dynamical equation, it is hard to determine its constants by static analysis. In [
12,
18,
23,
24], under respective assumptions the authors have provided some dynamical analysis for the behavior of the universe. Here we also qualitatively analyze the dynamical properties of the Friedmann equation according to the above results. Under the assumptions of positive mass density (
43) and negative initial pressure (
44), we find that the universe cannot reach the initial singularity, as well as the parameters
and
. That is to say, the spatial structure of the universe is closed 3 dimensional sphere
, and the cosmological constant is likely to be zero. Besides, the universe should be cyclic in time. Obviously, these conclusions will help to correct some popular misconceptions and bring great convenience to further study the properties of other problems in cosmology such as dark matter and dark energy.
From the previous analysis, we find that the scale factor
is nonanalytic at origin, which increases difficulty for analysis, so we adopt the conformal FLRW metric,
Then the Friedmann Equation (
38) becomes
where
. (
105) can be rewritten as
where
corresponds to the total conformal density of proper mass,
which is a constant. (
107) means that the total conformal energy of the universe is bounded. By (
106) we find
has length dimension, it is the average scale of the universe [
21].
Comparing (
106) with (
105), we get relation
corresponds to the rest and unknown parts of
, which satisfies
as
and
as
. In physics,
is mainly determined by nonlinear potential
. The specific form of
is not important for qualitative analysis, only its asymptotic properties as
have influence on the following discussion. The property of the solution of (
106) can be clearly discussed by means of phase trajectories.
Substituting (
109) into energy conservation law (
39), we get the total pressure as
We find
is irrelative to
. Since the derivatives of pressure and potential correspond to ordinary forces which should be finite, so
should be at least continuous. Then by (
110) we have at least
. Consequently, by the definition of
in (
106), we also have
.
The following discussion is based on Friedamnn Equation (
106) as well as two assumptions (
43) and (
44), namely, the positive total energy density
and negative initial pressure
. Clearly the two assumptions are compatible with observational facts [
24].
Theorem 4. For function defined in (106), if and condition (44) holds, we have Proof. In the case of
, by (
110) and condition (
44), we have
Consequently, by the definition of
in (
106), we get
In the case of
, again by (
110) and condition (
44), we have
by
we find
. According to the definition of
in (
106), we get
Then we prove (
111) holds in all cases. □
The above theorem implies the following important conclusion:
, the evolution of the universe cannot reach the initial singularity.
Now we check
. For the solution of Friedmann Equation (
106), we have
. By (
111) and the continuity of
, the equation
certainly have a positive root
.
If
has only this positive root
, by
, then
can be expressed as
If
has a series of different positive roots
,
for the practical universe should be simply connected and then can be expressed as
Since Friedmann equation is an equation in average sense, the multiple roots are meaningless in physics. The connected phase trajectories
of dynamical Equation (
106) with (
116) or (
117) are displayed in
Figure 1, in which we have set the average scale
. (
117) corresponds to the cyclic cosmological model, and (
116) to the bouncing one. We set the time origin
at the turning point
. Form
Figure 1 we learn clearly the initial singularity is absent, i.e.,
a cannot reaches 0 point.
Substituting (
116) or (
117) into (
108) and letting
, in both cases we have
Since in cosmology, by (117) we certainly have due to . Then we get another conclusion:
, the space of the universe is a closed 3 dimensional sphere.
In the cyclic closed case (117), we have an estimation of upper bound for the cosmological constant
. Substituting (117) into (108) and letting
, by (
43) we have
Since
forms the main part of mass-energy density at present time, which can be estimated by observational data [
21], and
as
can be omitted. For
we have
and estimation
So for the cosmological constant in a cyclic and closed universe, we get the third conclusion:
, the cosmological constant is an infinitesimal.
This estimation is less than the present observational data. This difference can be explained by the potentials W in energy-momentum tensor, which is a fast decaying in Friedmann equation. Therefore setting constant is a good choice in cosmology.
For a bouncing cosmological model, while
, the behavior of Friedmann Equation (
106) is controlled by dominant term
, and the fast decaying term
can be omitted. In this case, to be clear, (
106) can be replaced by the following dimensionless Hamiltonian-like equation
in which
For solution of Friedmann equation we have , which is conserved.
In (
121),
is equivalent to the coordinate of a unit mass,
potential, and
H energy. The potential function
and phase trajectories
is displayed by
Figure 2 and
Figure 3. The solution is closed if
, but bouncing if
. As we can see from
Figure 2 and
Figure 3,
or
has only influence on the behavior of a fully developed universe but has little influence on a small universe. On the contrary, the function of
can prevent
from reaching the initial singularity but has little influence on a fully developed universe. For closed universe, we have the second root
. In contrast
with (
120), we find the estimation of
by criterion
is larger. In bouncing case [
25], we have
as
. In this case, the solution of Friedmann equation globally exists and the asymptotic behavior is controlled by term
. For the big rip model, we need an even higher order term in Friedmann equation, which is unreasonable in physics.
The bouncing model with closed space is inconsistent with the isotropy and homogeneity of the present universe, because the universe should be heavily anisotropy and inhomogeneity before the turning point due to the lack of initial causality among remote parts, and some information should be kept today. However, this problem is absent in a cyclic and closed universe, because the anisotropy and inhomogeneity in a period will be polished by the subsequent evolution due to the entropy increasing principle. In a closed system, the dissipative effect will work when the inhomogeneity of the matter distribution is greater than the controlling degree of internal interaction of matter, it reduces the inhomogeneity to match the scale of the interactive force. From the above analysis we find is purely a trouble term without any practical purpose.
5. Towards a Realistic Cosmological Model
In this section, we discuss the cosmological model with nonlinear potentials; that is, we examine the influence of the term
on the Friedmann Equations (
105)–(
109). Based on the analysis of
Section 2 and
Section 3, we find that in (
106),
X has an influence on the behavior of the universe at the early age, and
only has an influence on the very old universe.
has not any clear purpose in physics, so we set
. In the conformal coordinate system (
104), using (
106) and
, the dynamics for a cyclic and closed universe is generally given by (
105) and (
117) as follows
where
is the minimum scale and
is the maximum scale,
are two parameters that reflect the influence of nonlinear potentials on the universe. and the parameters
all have length dimension. In fact, (
117) only required
in the domain
. However,
is a high order small term and has no influence on the following analysis and calculation, and taking the term
adds a lot of cases for judgment, so only the case
is needed for the following discussion.
For the convenience of discussion, we define a dimensionless function
For
, we have the approximation
and
in the calculation. The age of the universe is calculated by
where
is the present scale of the universe. The solution is the elliptic integrals. Denote the half period of the universe by
By the approximation
, we have
where
B is defined by
So we have the approximation
In the above calculation, we used
,
and
then the integral can be calculated.
The Hubble parameter can be calculated as
Denoting the critical density
we have the dimensionless mass density
In the second-order approximation, we find that
acts as one parameter and the influence of
disappears. This overcomes the shortage of useful observational data. Omitting the higher order terms in (
128) and (
129), and making the transformation
we obtain 3 equations for 3 parameters
.
Theoretically, we can solve for
from the above equations using observational data
. By (
131), we obtain
where
. Substituting (
133) into (
132), we obtain the equation for
C,
The curves of
are displayed in
Figure 4. By the definition (
130), we find that
C is an increasing function of
A or
, so only the increasing part of the curves are meaningful in physics.
has a maximum. Omitting
, we have
For simplicity, we take
B as the independent parameter instead of
. From (
133), we obtain the solution
Substituting it into (
134) and noting
, we obtain
Substituting it into (
135), we obtain
C determined by observational data, then by (
131), we obtain
A. Other parameters can be calculated by
From the observational data set [
3,
4,
5,
6], we have the following typical range of parameter values [
4],
where
h is the dimensionless Hubble parameter
Based on the equations, we calculate the typical values for all parameters, some results are displayed in
Table 1.
This means that the expansion of the universe is still accelerating. Using (
123), we obtain the relation
as
Substituting (
138) into the definition of
X (
109), we have the relation
as
Substituting it into (
110), we obtain the relation
as
From (
138) and (
141), we obtain the equation of state
as
where
z is the cosmological redshift.
From
Table 1, we find that the structural parameters are sensitive to mass density
: the larger the mass, the smaller the universe, and the rate is very large. The difficulty to detect the little value of
is a good news for humanity, as it reflects that the universe is still very young, and we can expect a better future for humanity. Relatively, the parameters are not very sensitive to the age
and the Hubble parameter
. Since measuring
is very difficult and ambiguous, we need a more efficient method to measure cosmic data. Obviously, the above model is hardly contradictory against observational data, this is because the above calculating results are all compatible with observational facts and the effective observational data are still not enough to determine all the coefficients in (
123).
The cyclic and closed model can provide more natural explanations for cosmological problems. From (
123), we learn that there is a cradle of rebirth
rather than an initial singularity. At this time, the drifting speed of the particles or the cosmic temperature takes the maximum, and the volume of the Universe takes the minimum. This situation will result in violent collisions among galaxies and the particles. Such collisions will recover the vitality of the dead stars and combined particles. Besides, the nonlinear potential will become dominant at this time, and the property of the particles will change. Just like the rebirth of the Phoenix, the Universe gets her rebirth at the turning point.
6. Discussion and Conclusions
Since the above derivations are all elementary and reliable, and all concepts have clearly physical meanings, so the conclusions should be quite credible. However, the above conclusions contradict the singularity theorems, this is because some preconditions of these theorems are invalid in physical world [
25]. For example, the existence of negative pressure or potential is ignored in the energy condition. Besides, we have only unique realistic simultaneous Cauchy surface in the space-time [
30,
32], but the derivation of Raychaudhury equation unconsciously assumes and uses the future properties of the space-time. So this equation cannot be generally used for dynamical analysis. A realistic singularity in Nature is actually contradictory and incomprehensible, so the absence of singularity in Nature is a basic principle in physics.
To sum up, by studying the properties of the EMT and EOS of various physical fields, especially the EMT and EOS of nonlinear spinors, and qualitatively analyzing the dynamical behavior of the general Friedmann equation and logical relations between parameters, we get some definite constraints on . We find that only the cyclic and closed cosmological model with a tiny or vanishing is natural and reasonable in physics. The other cases include nonphysical effects or logical contradictions. Such constraints will be helpful for the research of some other issues in cosmology. In some sense, we restored Heraclitus’ ancient faith: “The world, an entity out of everything, was created by neither gods nor men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and regularly becoming extinguished”.