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This is a republication of a paper by G.F.R. Ellis first published in Proceedings of the International School of Physics: General Relativity and Cosmology, 1971, in which he formulated the framework for relativistic cosmology with an arbitrary background geometry. The article has been selected for publication in the Golden Oldies series of General Relativity and Gravitation. The paper is accompanied by a Golden Oldie Editorial comprising an editorial note written by Bill Stoeger and Ellis’ brief autobiography.
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An editorial note to this paper and a biography can be found via doi:10.1007/s10714-009-0759-0.
Editorial responsibility: A. Krasiński, e-mail: akr@camk.edu.pl
Original paper: G. F. R. Ellis: Relativistic cosmology, In: Sachs, R.K. (ed.) Proceedings of the International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi”, Course 47: General relativity and cosmology, pp. 104–182. Academic Press, New York and London (1971). Reprinted with the kind permission of Elsevier Ltd, the current owner of the Academic Press copyright, and of the author.
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Ellis, G.F.R. Republication of: Relativistic cosmology. Gen Relativ Gravit 41, 581–660 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-009-0760-7
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-009-0760-7