For irrotational dust the shear tensor is consistently diagonalizable with its covariant time derivative: $sigma_{ab}=0=dot{sigma}_{ab},; a eq b$, if and only if the divergence of the magnetic part of the Weyl tensor vanishes: $div~H = 0$. We show here that in that case, the consistency of the Ricci constraints requires that the magnetic part of the Weyl tensor itself vanishes: $H_{ab}=0$.
We report on numerical results from an independent formalism to describe the quasi-equilibrium structure of nonsynchronous binary neutron stars in general relativity. This is an important independent test of controversial numerical hydrodynamic simulations which suggested that nonsynchronous neutron stars in a close binary can experience compression prior to the last stable circular orbit. We show that, for compact enough stars the interior density increases slightly as irrotational binary neutron stars approach their last orbits. The magnitude of the effect, however, is much smaller than that reported in previous hydrodynamic simulations.
We extend the general relativistic Lagrangian perturbation theory, recently developed for the formation of cosmic structures in a dust continuum, to the case of model universes containing a single fluid with a single-valued analytic equation of state. Using a coframe-based perturbation approach, we investigate evolution equations for structure formation in pressure-supported irrotational fluids that generate their rest-frame spacetime foliation. We provide master equations to first order for the evolution of the trace and traceless parts of barotropic perturbations that evolve in the perturbed space, where the latter describes the propagation of gravitational waves in the fluid. We illustrate the trace evolution for a linear equation of state and for a model equation of state describing isotropic velocity dispersion, and we discuss differences to the dust matter model, to the Newtonian case, and to standard perturbation approaches.
An algebraic multilevel iteration method for solving system of linear algebraic equations arising in $H(mathrm{curl})$ and $H(mathrm{div})$ spaces are presented. The algorithm is developed for the discrete problem obtained by using the space of lowest order Nedelec and Raviart-Thomas-Nedelec elements. The theoretical analysis of the method is based only on some algebraic sequences and generalized eigenvalues of local (element-wise) problems. In the hierarchical basis framework, explicit recursion formulae are derived to compute the element matrices and the constant $gamma$ (which measures the quality of the space splitting) at any given level. It is proved that the proposed method is robust with respect to the problem parameters, and is of optimal order complexity. Supporting numerical results, including the case when the parameters have jumps, are also presented.
We consider a class of inhomogeneous self-similar cosmological models in which the perfect fluid flow is tangential to the orbits of a three-parameter similarity group. We restrict the similarity group to possess both an Abelian $G_{2}$, and a single hypersurface orthogonal Killing vector field, and we restrict the fluid flow to be orthogonal to the orbits of the Abelian $G_{2}$. The temporal evolution of the models is forced to be power law, due to the similarity group, and the Einstein field equations reduce to a three-dimensional autonomous system of ordinary differential equations which is qualitatively analysed in order to determine the spatial structure of the models. The existence of two classes of well-behaved models is demonstrated. The first of these is asymptotically spatially homogeneous and matter dominated, and the second is vacuum dominated and either asymptotically spatially homogeneous or acceleration dominated, at large spatial distances.
$Om(z)$ is a diagnostic approach to distinguish dark energy models. However, there are few articles to discuss what is the distinguishing criterion. In this paper, firstly we smooth the latest observational $H(z)$ data using a model-independent method -- Gaussian processes, and then reconstruct the $Om(z)$ and its fist order derivative $mathcal{L}^{(1)}_m$. Such reconstructions not only could be the distinguishing criteria, but also could be used to estimate the authenticity of models. We choose some popular models to study, such as $Lambda$CDM, generalized Chaplygin gas (GCG) model, Chevallier-Polarski-Linder (CPL) parametrization and Jassal-Bagla-Padmanabhan (JBP) parametrization. We plot the trajectories of $Om(z)$ and $mathcal{L}^{(1)}_m$ with $1 sigma$ confidence level of these models, and compare them to the reconstruction from $H(z)$ data set. The result indicates that the $H(z)$ data does not favor the CPL and JBP models at $1 sigma$ confidence level. Strangely, in high redshift range, the reconstructed $mathcal{L}^{(1)}_m$ has a tendency of deviation from theoretical value, which demonstrates these models are disagreeable with high redshift $H(z)$ data. This result supports the conclusions of Sahni et al. citep{sahni2014model} and Ding et al. citep{ding2015there} that the $Lambda$CDM may not be the best description of our universe.