Abstract: | Exact spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein equations with quasi-vacuum source p = −ε are found in the form of spatially inhomogeneous Tolman metrics describing the inflationary stage of the evolution of the universe. Ul’yanov State University. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 2, pp. 3–7, February, 1998. |