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Intrinsic Conformal Symmetries in Szekeres models

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-06-13 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We show that Spatially Inhomogeneous (SI) and Irrotational dust models admit a \emph{6-dimensional algebra } of \emph{Intrinsic Conformal Vector Fields} (ICVFs) Xα\mathbf{X}_{\alpha } satisfying pacpbdLXαpcd=2ϕ(Xα)pabp_{a}^{c}p_{b}^{d}\mathcal{L}_{\mathbf{X}_{\alpha }}p_{cd}=2\phi (\mathbf{X}_{\alpha })p_{ab} where pabp_{ab} is the associated metric of the 2d distribution X\mathcal{X} normal to the fluid velocity uau^{a} and the radial unit spacelike vector field xax^{a}. The Intrinsic Conformal (IC) algebra is determined for each of the curvature value ϵ\epsilon that characterizes the structure of the screen space X\mathcal{X}. In addition the conformal flatness of the hypersurfaces u=0\mathbf{u}=\mathbf{0} indicates the existence of a \emph{% 10-dimensional algebra} of ICVFs of the 3d metric habh_{ab}. We illustrate this expectation and propose a method to derive them by giving explicitly the \emph{7 proper} ICVFs of the Lema\^{\i}tre-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) model which represents the simplest subclass within the Szekeres family.

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@article{arxiv.1611.09781,
  title  = {Intrinsic Conformal Symmetries in Szekeres models},
  author = {Pantelis S. Apostolopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.09781},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

6 pages (uses iopart style/class files); (v2) some minor amendments to match published version in Modern Physics Letters A