Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2000-07-03
Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 104023
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
19 pages, 1 table, REVTeX v3.1 (10pt), submitted for publication to Physical Review D; added Report-No, corrected typos
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.104023
A recent dynamical formulation at derivative level $\ptl^{3}g$ for fluid spacetime geometries $({\cal M}, {\bf g}, {\bf u})$, that employs the concept of evolution systems in first-order symmetric hyperbolic format, implies the existence in the Weyl curvature branch of a set of timelike characteristic 3-surfaces associated with propagation speed $|v| = \sfrac{1}{2}$ relative to fluid-comoving observers. We show it is the physical role of the constraint equations to prevent realisation of jump discontinuities in the derivatives of the related initial data so that Weyl curvature modes propagating along these 3-surfaces cannot be activated. In addition we introduce a new, illustrative first-order symmetric hyperbolic evolution system at derivative level $\ptl^{2}g$ for baryotropic perfect fluid cosmological models that are invariant under the transformations of an Abelian $G_{2}$ isometry group.
Ellis George F. R.
Elst Henk van
Schmidt Bernd G.
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