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Past exam of the general relativity and cosmology and condensed matter physics paper of Part B of the physics course of the University of Oxford / 2011 / Section V / 3 / Unlettered 5 / Solution by

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The official notes, PDF p. 21, handwritten p. 14 give the acceleration signs and the instability conclusion for the Einstein static universe. One wording correction is necessary: their word “oscillatory” for the overdense perturbation is a slip. Starting near rest, an overdense model contracts and its matter density rises, whereas an underdense model expands and its matter density falls; both move away from the static balance.

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