Testing the isotropy of the Hubble expansion
  We have used the Union2.1 SNIa compilation to search for possible Hubble
expansion anisotropies, dividing the sky in 9 solid angles containing roughly
the same number of SNIa, as well as in the two Galactic hemispheres. We
identified only one sky region, containing 82 SNIa (~15% of total sample with
$z>0.02$), that indeed appears to share a significantly different Hubble
expansion than the rest of the sample. However, this behavior appears to be
attributed to the joint "erratic" behavior of only three SNIa and not to an
anisotropic expansion. We also find that the northern and southern galactic
hemispheres have different cosmological parameter solutions but still not
significant enough to assert the detection of a Hubble expansion anisotropy. We
conclude that even a few outliers can have such an effect as to induce
artificial indications of anisotropies, when the number of analysed SNIa is
relatively small.
