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Weyssenhoff fluid dynamics in general relativity using a 1 + 3 covariant approach

S D Brechet, M P Hobson and A N Lasenby

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The Weyssenhoff fluid is a perfect fluid with spin where the spin of the matter fields is the source of torsion in an Einstein–Cartan framework. Obukhov and Korotky showed that this fluid can be described as an effective fluid with spin in general relativity. A dynamical analysis of such a fluid is performed in a gauge-invariant manner using the 1 + 3 covariant approach. This yields the propagation and constraint equations for the set of dynamical variables. A verification of these equations is performed for the special case of irrotational flow with zero peculiar acceleration by evolving the constraints.


PACS

04.20.-q Classical general relativity

95.30.Sf Relativity and gravitation

98.80.Cq Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe (including cosmic pancakes, cosmic strings, chaotic phenomena, inflationary universe, etc.)

MSC

83F05 Cosmology

83C05 Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 24 (21 December 2007)

Received 15 June 2007, in final form 14 September 2007

Published 29 November 2007



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