Uniqueness of Petrov type D spatially inhomogeneous irrotational silent models

Details Uniqueness of Petrov type D spatially inhomogeneous irrotational silent models Uniqueness of Petrov type D spatially inhomogeneous irrotational silent models

2006-05-25

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0605130v3

Int.J.Mod.Phys.A22:1983-2006,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Latex, 19 pages, no figures;(v2) some clarification remarks and an appendix are added; (v3) minor changes to match published v

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0217751X07036294

The consistency of the constraint with the evolution equations for spatially inhomogeneous and irrotational silent (SIIS) models of Petrov type I, demands that the former are preserved along the timelike congruence represented by the velocity of the dust fluid, leading to \emph{new} non-trivial constraints. This fact has been used to conjecture that the resulting models correspond to the spatially homogeneous (SH) models of Bianchi type I, at least for the case where the cosmological constant vanish. By exploiting the full set of the constraint equations as expressed in the 1+3 covariant formalism and using elements from the theory of the spacelike congruences, we provide a direct and simple proof of this conjecture for vacuum and dust fluid models, which shows that the Szekeres family of solutions represents the most general class of SIIS models. The suggested procedure also shows that, the uniqueness of the SIIS of the Petrov type D is not, in general, affected by the presence of a non-zero pressure fluid. Therefore, in order to allow a broader class of Petrov type I solutions apart from the SH models of Bianchi type I, one should consider more general ``silent'' configurations by relaxing the vanishing of the vorticity and the magnetic part of the Weyl tensor but maintaining their ``silence'' properties i.e. the vanishing of the curls of $E_{ab},H_{ab}$ and the pressure $p$.

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