General solution of Liouville's equation in Robertson-Walker space-times

DOI10.1007/BF00759101MaRDI QIDQ1095425zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Sunil D. Maharaj, Roy Maartens

Publication date 1987

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00759101

zbMATH Keywords

Killing vectorsLiouville's equationRobertson-Walker space-times

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

Review text

We obtain the general solution of Liouville's equation in Robertson- Walker space-times, based on Killing vector constants of the motion and a new time-dependent first integral. For photons the solution is generated by conformal Killing vectors.

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