Perturbations of spatially closed Bianchi III spacetimes
Astronomical observations support the concept of an isotropic and homogeneous universe which is expanding at such a rate that the cosmological expansion will continue. Isotropy and homogeneity must be interpreted as valid only when the universe is considered in a coarse-grained sense on a sufficiently large scale that fine details such as clusters of galaxies are blended into a uniform background. Since one cannot observe the entire universe, it is conceivable that the universe is only locally isotropic and homogeneous. Furthermore, since astronomical observations are limited to past lightlike directions for any observer, any hypothetical breakdown of global homogeneity might be unobservable at a given epoch of cosmic time but became observable at a later epoch of universal history. Recent results and conjectures on possible 3-manifold topologies, and recent insights into the dynamics of expanding cosmological models implied by Einstein's equations suggest that apart from the compact hyperbolic manifolds there is the class of graph manifolds of infinite fundamental group which support the scenario that, under cosmological expansion, the spatial metric converges to the hyperbolic metric on the hyperbolic component of the manifold but collapses the graph manifold components to zero rescaled volume asymptotically. Thus the observer is led to consider a model of the universe in which the spatial topology is a composite of hyperbolic and graph manifold pieces but for which the Einsteinian dynamics predicts that the spatial volume is asymptotically dominated by the locally isotropic and homogeneous hyperbolic components. In this context, the simplest manifolds to consider are those of Bianchi III type which can be compactified to trivial \({\mathbf S}_1\)-bundles over higher genus surfaces. The paper under review studies linear perturbations of such spatially closed Bianchi III type vacuum spacetimes under the projective coordinatization by Teichmüller parameters. It develops the associated mode functions, vectors, and tensors, and then performs separations of perturbation variables. The perturbation equations decouple in a way similar to the Regge-Wheeler spherically symmetric case [\textit{T. Regge} and \textit{J. A. Wheeler}, Stability of a Schwarzschild singularity. Phys. Rev., II. Ser. 108, 1063--1069 (1957; Zbl 0079.41902)]. The tensor harmonics needed for the separation of the spatial coordinates have much in common with those of the Regge-Wheeler analysis of spherically symmetric backgrounds, such as Schwarzschild solutions, but with eigenfunctions of the scalar Laplacian on the higher genus surface. A decoupling of each set of perturbation equations into gauge-dependent and gauge-independent parts is achieved in order to obtain solutions of the wave equations in terms of the gauge-invariant variables.
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