Applications of the Hawking energy on lightcones in cosmology

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ABE882zbMATH Open1481.83119arXiv2010.07896OpenAlexW3093172634MaRDI QIDQ5163335FDOQ5163335

Authors: Dennis Stock 

Publication date: 3 November 2021

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The past lightcone of an observer in a cosmological spacetime is the unique geometric structure directly linked to observations. After general properties of the Hawking energy along slices of the past lightcone have previously been studied, the present work continues along this path by providing explicit cosmological applications of the Hawking energy associated with a lightcone. Firstly, it is shown that amongst all two-dimensional non-trapped spheres with equal area and average matter density, a shear-free matter distribution maximizes the Hawking energy for sufficiently high densities. Secondly, a Robertson-Walker reference slice is constructed for every lightcone slice based on area and energy. Thirdly, after a few pedagogical examples in concrete FLRW spacetimes, the implications of monotonicity of the energy down the lightcone are explored, arriving at two new bounds on the cosmic fluid's density and equation-of-state parameter.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07896

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zbMATH Keywords

inhomogeneitieslightconeHawking energycosmic fluid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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