What is Spherically Symmetric Radiation-Filled Universe?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Mentz114
  • Start date Start date
  • Tags Tags
    Vacuum
Mentz114
Messages
5,429
Reaction score
292
This metric ##ds^2=\frac{K}{r}\left(-dt^2+dr^2+r^2d\phi^2+r^2\sin(\theta)^2d\theta^2 \right)## (obviously in a spherical polar chart) gives an Einstein tensor (in the comoving frame field)

##\kappa T_{00}=\frac{3\,K}{4\,r},\ \kappa T_{11}=-\frac{5\,K}{4\,r}, \ \kappa T_{22}=\frac{K}{4\,r}, \ \kappa T_{33}=\frac{K}{4\,r}##

The Weyl curvature is zero ( conformal flatness ).

This is not a vacuum but the trace ##{T^\mu}_\mu## is zero. Is this a spherically symmetric radiation filled universe with some extra something happening in the ##r##-direction ?

Presumably for this to exist there must be a point source ?

Any clarifications, please ?
 
Physics news on Phys.org
Since posting this I've had time to do some reading and I have mistaken the EMT for something it is not.All the radiation metrics use a null coordinate.

This EMT is not anything physical. Whoops.
 
In Philippe G. Ciarlet's book 'An introduction to differential geometry', He gives the integrability conditions of the differential equations like this: $$ \partial_{i} F_{lj}=L^p_{ij} F_{lp},\,\,\,F_{ij}(x_0)=F^0_{ij}. $$ The integrability conditions for the existence of a global solution ##F_{lj}## is: $$ R^i_{jkl}\equiv\partial_k L^i_{jl}-\partial_l L^i_{jk}+L^h_{jl} L^i_{hk}-L^h_{jk} L^i_{hl}=0 $$ Then from the equation: $$\nabla_b e_a= \Gamma^c_{ab} e_c$$ Using cartesian basis ## e_I...
Thread 'Dirac's integral for the energy-momentum of the gravitational field'
See Dirac's brief treatment of the energy-momentum pseudo-tensor in the attached picture. Dirac is presumably integrating eq. (31.2) over the 4D "hypercylinder" defined by ##T_1 \le x^0 \le T_2## and ##\mathbf{|x|} \le R##, where ##R## is sufficiently large to include all the matter-energy fields in the system. Then \begin{align} 0 &= \int_V \left[ ({t_\mu}^\nu + T_\mu^\nu)\sqrt{-g}\, \right]_{,\nu} d^4 x = \int_{\partial V} ({t_\mu}^\nu + T_\mu^\nu)\sqrt{-g} \, dS_\nu \nonumber\\ &= \left(...
Abstract The gravitational-wave signal GW250114 was observed by the two LIGO detectors with a network matched-filter signal-to-noise ratio of 80. The signal was emitted by the coalescence of two black holes with near-equal masses ## m_1=33.6_{-0.8}^{+1.2} M_{⊙} ## and ## m_2=32.2_{-1. 3}^{+0.8} M_{⊙}##, and small spins ##\chi_{1,2}\leq 0.26 ## (90% credibility) and negligible eccentricity ##e⁢\leq 0.03.## Postmerger data excluding the peak region are consistent with the dominant quadrupolar...
Back
Top