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Anisotropic universes with conformal motion

Roy Maartens, Conrad Mellin

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9602017

Abstract

By imposing natural geometrical and kinematical conditions on a conformal Killing vector in Bianchi I spacetime, we show that a class of axisymmetric metrics admits a conformal motion. This class contains new exact solutions of Einstein's equations, including anisotropic radiation universes that isotropise at late times.

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