Perfect fluid cosmology with geodesic world lines

A. K. Raychaudhuri and S. R. Maity
Phys. Rev. D 18, 3595 – Published 15 November 1978
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Abstract

It is shown that for a perfect fluid with an equation of state p=p(ρ), if the world lines are geodesics, then they are hypersurface orthogonal and the scalars p, ρ, σ2, and θ2 are all constants over these hypersurfaces, irrespective of any spatial-homogeneity assumption. However, an examination of some simple cases does not reveal any spatially nonhomogeneous solution with these properties.

  • Received 14 February 1978

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.18.3595

©1978 American Physical Society

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A. K. Raychaudhuri and S. R. Maity

  • Physics Department, Presidency College, Calcutta, India

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Perfect fluid cosmology with geodesic world lines

Dipankar Ray
Phys. Rev. D 21, 1692 (1980)

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Vol. 18, Iss. 10 — 15 November 1978

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