FIZIKA B 13 (2004)  4, 711-718

COSMOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS IN VARIABLE REST MASS THEORY OF GRAVITATION

G. S. KHADEKAR^a, VRISHALI PATKI^a and R. RADHA^b
aDepartment of Mathematics, Nagpur University, Nagpur, India
^bDepartment of Mathematics, VNIT, Nagpur, India

 Received 30 July 2004;  Accepted 20 December 2004
Online 7 February 2005

We have obtained cosmological solutions in five-dimensional space-time-mass theory of gravitation by assuming components of energy momentum tensor, pressure p=0 and the role of p₄ as a cosmological constant. The behaviour of the solution is discussed for the cases in which k=-1,0,+1.

PACS numbers: 04.20.Ex, 04.40.-b
UDC 530.12

Keywords: cosmology, five dimensional space, Wesson theory, Kaluza-Klein theory

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