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On almost Ehlers-Geren-Sachs theorems

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-06-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We show assuming small data that massless solutions to the reflection symmetric Einstein-Vlasov system with Bianchi VII0_0 symmetry which are not locally rotational symmetric, can be arbitrarily close to and will remain close to isotropy as regards {to} the shear. However in general the shear will not tend to zero and the Hubble normalised Weyl curvature will blow up. This generalises the work \cite{NHW,WHU}, which considered a non-tilted radiation fluid to the massless Vlasov case. This represents another example of the fact that almost Ehlers-Geren-Sachs theorems do not hold in general and that collisionless matter behaves differently than a perfect fluid.

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@article{arxiv.2111.01065,
  title  = {On almost Ehlers-Geren-Sachs theorems},
  author = {Ho Lee and Ernesto Nungesser and John Stalker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.01065},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

26 pages, 1 figure; matches accepted version in CQG; presentation improved, minor typos corrected

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