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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ii Paper 2 37E c i Solution by
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With and , the Friedmann effective potential for pressureless matter isAlthough has one maximum, it is negative, so lies above it and never vanishes. An initially small expanding universe therefore expands forever. At large ,so the expansion approaches the exponential de Sitter scale factor in flat slicing. There is no turning point.
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