Can information be transmitted faster than c in inflationary cosmology?

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can information be transmitted faster than c in inflationary cosmology where with a large positive cosmological constant, space is itself expanding in an exponential faster than c manner?
 
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ensabah6 said:
can information be transmitted faster than c in inflationary cosmology where with a large positive cosmological constant, space is itself expanding in an exponential faster than c manner?

No, because, even in universes that have positive cosmological constants, local speeds are always less than the local speed of light.
 
Information cannot be transmitted along a spacelike worldline. But it is possible to have timelike or lightlike worldlines with a "coordinate velocity" greater than c even in special relativity (eg rotating reference frame)