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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Hyperbolically Symmetric Versions of Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi Spacetimes
Luis Herrera1, Alicia Di Prisco2, Justo Ospino3
1Instituto Universitario de Física Fundamental y Matemáticas, Universidad de Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain.
Abstract:
We study fluid distributions endowed with hyperbolic symmetry, which share many common features with Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) solutions (e.g., they are geodesic, shearing, and nonconformally flat, and the energy density is inhomogeneous). As such, they may be considered as hyperbolic symmetric versions of LTB, with spherical symmetry replaced by hyperbolic symmetry. We start by considering pure dust models, and afterwards, we extend our analysis to dissipative models with anisotropic pressure. In the former case, the complexity factor is necessarily nonvanishing, whereas in the latter cases, models with a vanishing complexity factor are found. The remarkable fact is that all solutions satisfying the vanishing complexity factor condition are necessarily nondissipative and satisfy the stiff equation of state.
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