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A uniform one-sign charged fluid cannot satisfy Gauss on a compact torus
Statement refuted
The claim that smooth sourced-Gauss initial data on a compact boundaryless slice may have a charge-per-number-density scalar that is nonzero and has one strict sign everywhere.
Example
Take with its standard orientation, any smooth Riemannian metric , a future unit normal , smooth strict-EOS density , and smooth future unit velocity . If is everywhere strictly positive or everywhere strictly negative, the sourced electric Gauss constraint cannot hold for any electric field : compact charge compatibility forces the total normal charge to vanish, whereas the strict charged-fluid current gives it the same strict sign as . In particular, the spatially uniform candidate , , , and fails Gauss pointwise.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A nonempty compact oriented boundaryless three-manifold , the strict charged-fluid model, and its sourced electric Gauss constraint.
Strict charged barotropic tensor system: , , , and is future unit timelike.
Compact no-boundary normal charge compatibility: If the sourced electric Gauss constraint holds on a compact oriented boundaryless slice, then .
The observer rest-space decomposition and the spatial projection: For a unit timelike observer , every vector decomposes as with , , and the induced spatial metric satisfies .
Classification of future and past causal vectors by a timelike field: The future timelike component consists exactly of timelike vectors whose inner product with the fixed time-orientation field is negative.
The timelike set has exactly two convex components, described in orthonormal coordinates: In an orthonormal basis whose time vector is future, the future timelike component is .
Every Lorentz form admits an ordered basis with matrix diag(-1,1,1,1): A Lorentzian vector space admits an ordered orthonormal basis of signature .
Cauchy–Schwarz: , with equality exactly for linearly dependent vectors: For Euclidean spatial coordinate vectors , .
Counterexample
Suppose such data have of one strict sign. At a point choose an orthonormal basis by [F6], and choose its time vector in the future component; [F4] fixes that component by the time-orientation field and [F5] gives its coordinate form. Therefore the future unit vectors and have coordinates and . By [F7], . Put and ; then [F3] gives and . The normalization now gives , so and . Since by [F1], the integrand has the same strict sign as at every point. Its integral is nonzero: at any point its absolute value is positive, and continuity makes it bounded away from zero on a neighborhood of positive Riemannian volume. This contradicts [F2], which forces the integral to be zero. Therefore no such sourced-Gauss data exist.
For the displayed uniform candidate, and . Hence , whereas for . The sourced Gauss equation is therefore false for that candidate, independently of whether its Einstein constraints hold.
Depends on
Strict charged barotropic tensor system
Compact no-boundary normal charge compatibility
The observer rest-space decomposition and the spatial projection
Classification of future and past causal vectors by a timelike field
The timelike set has exactly two convex components, described in orthonormal coordinates
Every Lorentz form admits an ordered basis with matrix diag(-1,1,1,1)
Cauchy–Schwarz: , with equality exactly for linearly dependent vectors