Shear-free perfect fluids with a barotropic equation of state in general relativity: an update and a new formalism

2023/09/19 by N Van den Bergh, Bergh, Norbert Van den
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Navier-Stokes equation solutions #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Nonlinear Waves and Solitons

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2309.10478

Abstract

The present status of the shear-free perfect fluid conjecture in general relativity is discussed: I give a review of recent work and present a new formalism which may provide a better understanding of the problems encountered.

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