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A static flat matter datum satisfying the spatial-component and continuity equations but not the Friedmann equation
Statement refuted
Statement refuted: "Every Friedmann-system datum of The Friedmann, acceleration and continuity equations of an FLRW model datum with , , constant scale factor for some , constant density for some and pressure satisfies the Friedmann equation (F)."
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Real constants , , , ; the interval ; the constant functions , , ; and the equations (F), (A), (C), (S) of The Friedmann, acceleration and continuity equations of an FLRW model datum with .
The equations of The Friedmann, acceleration and continuity equations of an FLRW model datum with read for (F), for (A), for (C) and for (S), at every point of .
The derivative of a constant function is , and the sum, product and quotient rules for differentiable functions on an open interval hold (The derivative of at a point that is a limit point of , and differentiability on a set, Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when ).
The real numbers form an ordered field; consequently the product and quotient of strictly positive real numbers is strictly positive, so and (Order on the reals).
Counterexample
(The datum and its derivatives.) Each of , , is a constant function on , hence smooth, with taking values in ; thus is a Friedmann-system datum of the kind named in the refuted statement. By [L2], , , , so .
(The Friedmann equation fails.) By [L1] and step 1.1, the left-hand side of (F) is , while the right-hand side is , which is strictly positive by [L3]; hence is false and (F) fails at every point of . This refutes the displayed statement.
(The acceleration equation fails and the other equations hold.) By [L1] and step 1.1, the left-hand side of (A) is while the right-hand side is by [L3], so (A) also fails. In contrast, (C) reads and (S) reads , so both hold identically. Thus the spatial-component equation (S) and the continuity equation (C) do not by themselves imply the Friedmann equation, and (F) is not redundant in the pair (F), (S).
(Conclusion.) The displayed universal statement is false: the flat static matter datum of step 1.1 has constant positive density and vanishing pressure and scale-factor velocity, and it satisfies (C) and (S) while failing (F) and (A) at every point.
Remarks
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Consistency with the equivalence proposition. The example does not contradict Equivalence of the Friedmann and acceleration systems, and the derivation of acceleration from Friedmann and continuity where the Hubble parameter does not vanish clause (a), which assumes (F) and compares the pairs (F), (S) and (F), (A); here (F) fails, so that proposition does not apply. It shows that the hypothesis (F) in that equivalence cannot be dropped.
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Scope. The datum is a formal Friedmann-system example, not a claim about a physical configuration. The conclusions concern only the four scalar equations defined in The Friedmann, acceleration and continuity equations of an FLRW model datum; no field law, observation, or physical model is asserted here.
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Sources
- S. M. Carroll, Lecture Notes on General Relativity, arXiv:gr-qc/9712019v1 (1997), Ch. 8 (8.20)-(8.23) and (8.35)-(8.36): the conservation equation and the two Friedmann equations, printed pp. 221-223 (PDF pp. 228-230)
- D. Tong, General Relativity (Cambridge Part III Mathematical Tripos, Michaelmas 2019), section 4.6.2: the Friedmann equation, the acceleration equation and the remark that the spatial equation alone does not determine the dynamics, printed pp. 201-203 (PDF pp. 208-210)