The Weyl tensor in Spatially Homogeneous Cosmological Models

Details The Weyl tensor in Spatially Homogeneous Cosmological Models The Weyl tensor in Spatially Homogeneous Cosmological Models

2002-06-20

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0206061v2

Class.Quant.Grav. 19 (2002) 5173-5194

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

25 pages, 1ps figure. Refs added. To appear in CQG

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/19/20/311

We study the evolution of the Weyl curvature invariant in all spatially homogeneous universe models containing a non-tilted gamma-law perfect fluid. We investigate all the Bianchi and Thurston type universe models and calculate the asymptotic evolution of Weyl curvature invariant for generic solutions to the Einstein field equations. The influence of compact topology on Bianchi types with hyperbolic space sections is also considered. Special emphasis is placed on the late-time behaviour where several interesting properties of the Weyl curvature invariant occur. The late-time behaviour is classified into five distinctive categories. It is found that for a large class of models, the generic late-time behaviour the Weyl curvature invariant is to dominate the Ricci invariant at late times. This behaviour occurs in universe models which have future attractors that are plane-wave spacetimes, for which all scalar curvature invariants vanish. The overall behaviour of the Weyl curvature invariant is discussed in relation to the proposal that some function of the Weyl tensor or its invariants should play the role of a gravitational 'entropy' for cosmological evolution. In particular, it is found that for all ever-expanding models the measure of gravitational entropy proposed by Gron and Hervik increases at late times.

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