Anisotropic Cosmological Models with Variable G and Decaying Vacuum Energy

We present Bianchi type-I cosmological models with a perfect fluid source and time-dependent gravitational and cosmological constants based on new exact solutions of Einstein’s equations. The perfect fluid is chosen to obey a barotropic equation of state. The models obtained represent a radiation dominated phase and a dust era. In some of the models the expansion changes from a decelerating phase to an accelerating one and these models asymptotically tend to the de Sitter universe. The paper is dedicated to late Prof. S.R. Roy, Ex-Head, Department of Mathematics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.