Turnaround bound with positive cosmological constant
ID: turnaround-bound-with-positive-cosmological-constant
A fixed-mass spherical shell has acceleration , in units . At a finite maximum radius , inward acceleration requires . Equality is the unstable static radius, approached only in the limiting separatrix case rather than a finite expansion-to-collapse turnaround. The effective potential reaches its maximum there, so an initially expanding bound inner-branch shell also needs energy below that maximum.
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