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Consistency of dust solutions with div H=0

Roy Maartens, William Lesame, George Ellis

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9703080

Abstract

One of the necessary covariant conditions for gravitational radiation is the vanishing of the divergence of the magnetic Weyl tensor Hab, while Hab itself is nonzero. We complete a recent analysis by showing that in irrotational dust spacetimes, the condition div H=0 evolves consistently in the exact nonlinear theory.

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