Skyrme Fluid in Anisotropic Universe

Abstract

Cosmological solutions are obtained in an anisotropic Kantowski-Sachs (KS) and Bianchi Type-I universes considering a cosmological constant with Skyrme fluid. Interestingly, the solutions obtained here in both the KS and Bianchi-I anisotropic universes are found isotropize at late time due to the presence of the Skyrme fluid even in the absence of $\Lambda$ term or any inflationary mechanism involving the inflaton field. A comparative study of both the anisotropic cosmological models are carried out here and found that Bianchi-I universe admits oscillatory solutions for a given matter configuration. We also note that the emergent universe model can be obtained with Skyrme fluid. The anisotropy, deceleration and jerk parameters have been studied along with the linear perturbative stability to explore efficacy of the model. Both the cosmological models are stable in the absence of cosmological constant besides their compatibility with observational data. Thus, we claim Skyrme fluid a possible source for isotropization of an anisotropic universe via accelerated expansion, which is capable of reproducing some observed features of the universe.