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Lanczos potentials and a definition of gravitational entropy for perturbed Friedman–Lemaitre–Robertson–Walker spacetimes

Filipe C Mena et al 2007 Class. Quantum Grav. 24 1733-1745   doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/24/7/004  Help

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Filipe C Mena1 and Paul Tod2
1 Departamento de Matemática, Universidade do Minho, 4710 Braga, Portugal
2 Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, St Giles 24-29, Oxford OX1 3LB, UK
E-mail: fmena@math.uminho.pt and tod@maths.ox.ac.uk

Abstract. We give a prescription for constructing a Lanczos potential for a cosmological model which is a purely gravitational perturbation of a Friedman–Lemaitre–Robertson–Walker spacetime. For the radiation equation of state, we find the Lanczos potential explicitly via Fourier transforms. As an application, we follow up a suggestion of Penrose (1979 Singularities and time-asymmetry General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey ed S W Hawking and W Israel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)) and propose a definition of gravitational entropy for these cosmologies. With this definition, the gravitational entropy initially is finite if and only if the initial Weyl tensor is finite.

PACS numbers: 04.20.Cv, 04.25.Nx, 98.80.Hw

Print publication: Issue 7 (7 April 2007)
Received 16 December 2006, in final form 9 February 2007
Published 13 March 2007

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