Spherically symmetric cosmology: resource paper

2008/03/06 by A. A. Coley, Coley, A. A., W. C. Lim +3
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0803.0905

14 pages

arxiv created 2008/03/06 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We use the 1+3 frame formalism to write down the evolution equations for spherically symmetric models as a well-posed system of first order PDEs in two variables, suitable for numerical and qualitative analysis.

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