Some relativistic cosmological models (Q1807303)

The author's dissertation from 1966 is published here for the first time in a journal. The now famous ``Kantowski-Sachs models'' in cosmology were deduced under the supervisorship of R. Sachs. The commutation relations and Killing equations then require the metric to have the following form \[ ds^2= dt^2- X(t)^2 dr^2- Y(t)^2 g_{AB} dx^A dx^B \qquad (A,B=2,3), \] where \(g_{AB}+ g_{AB} (x^2,x^3)\). The two-dimensional subspaces \(r= \text{const.}\), \(t= \text{const.}\), are spaces of constant curvature. By using the available coordinate transformations \(g_{AB}\) can be put in the following form \[ g_{AB} dx^A dx^B= [\sin^2 \theta (d\varphi)^2+ (d\theta)^2]. \] This model was new at that time, whereas the other models developed here belong to the earlier-found Bianchi models. A short version of the results appeared in \textit{R. Kantowski} and \textit{R. K. Sachs} [J. Math. Phys. 7, 443-446 (1966)].