Geodesics in the conformally flat Eisenhart metric
General Physics
2024-03-21 v2
Abstract
The (4+1) dimensional conformally flat Eisenhart geometry is investigated in this work, stressing the contribution of the stress tensor generating its curvature. The energy-momentum tensor is traceless and has only one nonzero component. It could be written as an anisotropic fluid with null transversal pressures and nonzero energy fluxes. The null and timelike geodesics are computed in the pure cosmological case when the Eisenhart potential energy is , where is related to the cosmological constant . Although the metric is curved, the radial null geodesics and are straight lines, with finite and , being the 5th coordinate. In contrast, for a radial timelike geodesic, if .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2305.20022,
title = {Geodesics in the conformally flat Eisenhart metric},
author = {Hristu Culetu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.20022},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
7 pages, no figures, new refs, section 2 extended