A geometric description of the intermediate behaviour for spatially homogeneous models

Details A geometric description of the intermediate behaviour for spatially homogeneous models A geometric description of the intermediate behaviour for spatially homogeneous models

2005-06-23

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0506114v3

Class.Quant.Grav. 22 (2005) 4425-4442

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Latex, 15 pages, no figures (uses iopart style/class files); added one reference and minor corrections; (v3) improved and exte

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/22/21/002

A new approach is suggested for the study of geometric symmetries in general relativity, leading to an invariant characterization of the evolutionary behaviour for a class of Spatially Homogeneous (SH) vacuum and orthogonal $\gamma -$law perfect fluid models. Exploiting the 1+3 orthonormal frame formalism, we express the kinematical quantities of a generic symmetry using expansion-normalized variables. In this way, a specific symmetry assumption lead to geometric constraints that are combined with the associated integrability conditions, coming from the existence of the symmetry and the induced expansion-normalized form of the Einstein's Field Equations (EFE), to give a close set of compatibility equations. By specializing to the case of a \emph{Kinematic Conformal Symmetry} (KCS), which is regarded as the direct generalization of the concept of self-similarity, we give the complete set of consistency equations for the whole SH dynamical state space. An interesting aspect of the analysis of the consistency equations is that, \emph{at least} for class A models which are Locally Rotationally Symmetric or lying within the invariant subset satisfying $N_{\alpha}^{\alpha}=0 $, a proper KCS \emph{always exists} and reduces to a self-similarity of the first or second kind at the asymptotic regimes, providing a way for the ``geometrization'' of the intermediate epoch of SH models.

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