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arXiv 2106.01769gr-qc
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宇宙引力波时空剪切的必要性

Necessity of spacetime shear for cosmological gravitational waves

Roger M. Mayala, Rituparno Goswami, Sunil D. Maharaj

摘要:

我们表明,一般的,但剪切均匀和各向同性的宇宙的扰动必然是沉默的,没有任何引力波。我们用两个步骤来证明这一点。首先,我们建立一个剪切自由扰动这些宇宙是加速自由和流体流动测地线的背景宇宙映射到自己在扰动宇宙。这种效应使扰动时空中外尔张量的电磁部分的演化方程变得复杂,而磁部分不再包含任何张量模。虽然驱动潮汐力的电部分确实具有由各向异性应力引起的张量模式,但这些模式在时间片上的每个点都具有均匀振荡,而没有任何波传播。我们还表明存在的涡度矢量波的来源是由热通量的旋度。这一分析表明,在膨胀的宇宙中,剪切张量在产生宇宙学引力波中起着至关重要的作用。

英文摘要:

We show that a general but shear-free perturbation of homogeneous and isotropic universes are necessarily silent, without any gravitational waves. We prove this in two steps. First we establish that a shear free perturbation of these universes are acceleration-free and the fluid flow geodesics of the background universe maps onto themselves in the perturbed universe. This effect then decouples the evolution equations of the electric and magnetic parts of the Weyl tensor in the perturbed spacetimes and the magnetic part no longer contains any tensor modes. Although the electric part, that drives the tidal forces, do have tensor modes sourced by the anisotropic stress, these modes have homogeneous oscillations at every point on a time slice without any wave propagation. We also show the presence of vorticity vector waves that are sourced by the curl of heat flux. This analysis shows the critical role of the shear tensor in generating cosmological gravitational waves in an expanding universe.

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