Cosmological round-trip communication horizon

ID: cosmological-round-trip-communication-horizon

A light signal sent from a comoving observer to a comoving reflector at separation , and immediately returned, consumes conformal time . The supremum of the initial physical reflector distances allowing a return is therefore half the cosmological event horizon radius. Equality generally requires infinite return time; finite-time reception requires a strictly smaller distance. For a cosmological domain wall network with , the supremum is .

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