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Curvature components of the diagonal Bianchi I metric
Statement
For a diagonal Bianchi I datum, write . In every local quotient chart, the only nonzero Christoffel symbols are and . The possibly nonzero lowered curvature components are exactly those obtained from the following values by the displayed sign reversals:
The Ricci components are
and every off-diagonal Ricci component is zero.
Statement references
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A diagonal Bianchi I datum on a nonempty open interval , its positive scale factors and metric, and the inherited context.
The quotient and product construction for this datum carries the axiom of countable choice and no stronger choice principle (Diagonal Bianchi I model).
In a local quotient chart the metric has entries , , and for ; each is positive and , and all spatial derivatives of the metric entries vanish (Diagonal Bianchi I model).
The connection, curvature, Ricci tensor and their sign/index conventions are given by the coordinate formulas in the local definition (C2 curvature for the diagonal Bianchi I quotient metric).
Proof
Work under the inherited context [A1]; no choice is used in the following finite coordinate calculation. The inverse metric has , and zero off-diagonal entries by [F1]. Substitution in [F2] gives and . Every other coefficient is zero because each differentiated spatial metric entry is zero and the metric matrix is diagonal.
The curvature formula [F2] and step 1.1 give and ; lowering the first index gives . Reversing the last two direction indices in the same formula gives . For , its only nonzero product in is , so ; direct substitution with the indices reversed gives equal to this and equal to its negative. Every remaining index pattern contains either a spatial derivative of a metric/connection coefficient or a zero coefficient from step 1.1, so it vanishes.
Contracting the components from step 2.1 with the inverse metric gives . For each , . The index patterns in step 2.1 give zero for every off-diagonal contraction. These are the displayed Ricci components.
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Sources
- Rishabh Jha, Introduction to Hamiltonian Formulation of General Relativity and Homogeneous Cosmologies, SciPost Physics Lecture Notes 73 (2023), arXiv:2204.03537v2, Section 4.3.1, equations (159)–(172), printed pp. 36–38 (PDF pp. 37–39)
- Diego L. Cáceres, Leonardo Castañeda, and Juan M. Tejeiro, Shear Dynamics in Bianchi I Cosmology, arXiv:1003.3491v1 (2010), Section 2, equations (2.1)–(2.2), printed p. 2 (PDF p. 3)