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The 16 pages that link to Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric, each with the reason it gives.

• Cosmological principleRelated: This metric encodes the spatial symmetries assumed by the principle.

• Friedmann equationsRelated: This metric supplies the geometry assumed in their derivation.

• Alexander FriedmannRelated: It provides the geometric framework for the class of models Friedmann studied.

• Cosmological horizonRelated: This standard cosmological geometry supplies the expansion history used to calculate horizon distances.

• Flatness problemRelated: It separates spatial curvature from the universe’s changing scale factor.

• Loop quantum cosmologyRelated: Its symmetries reduce cosmological dynamics to a small set of gravitational variables.

• Penrose–Hawking singularity theoremsRelated: These expanding cosmologies provide the setting motivating Hawking’s past-incompleteness results.

• 3-sphereRelated: Its positively curved spatial slices have the geometry of a 3-sphere.

• Comoving and proper distancesRelated: Its spatial line element distinguishes comoving coordinates from physical distance.