Abstract
A recent dynamical formulation at a derivative level for fluid spacetime geometries that employs the concept of evolution systems in a first-order symmetric hyperbolic format, implies the existence in the Weyl curvature branch of a set of timelike characteristic three-surfaces associated with the propagation speed relative to fluid-comoving observers. We show it is a physical role of the constraint equations to prevent realization of jump discontinuities in the derivatives of the related initial data so that Weyl curvature modes propagating along these three-surfaces cannot be activated. In addition we introduce a new, illustrative first-order symmetric hyperbolic evolution system at a derivative level for baryotropic perfect fluid cosmological models that are invariant under the transformation of an Abelian isometry group.
- Received 3 July 2000
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.62.104023
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