Dynamics of solutions of the Einstein equations with twisted Gowdy symmetry

TL;DR

This paper extends the analysis of vacuum Einstein equations to twisted Gowdy spacetimes with non-trivial torus bundle topology, revealing new relationships and inhomogeneous generalizations of known homogeneous solutions.

Contribution

It introduces a broader class of vacuum spacetimes with twisted topology and establishes connections between different Bianchi types and Gowdy models.

Findings

Vacuum solutions of Bianchi type VII₀ are isometric to circular loop Gowdy spacetimes.

Extended the analysis of global dynamics to twisted torus bundle topologies.

Linked previously unrelated classes of vacuum solutions through topological and geometric analysis.

Abstract

Some of the most interesting results on the global dynamics of solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations concern the Gowdy spacetimes whose spatial topology is that of a three-dimensional torus. In this paper certain of these ideas are extended to a wider class of vacuum spacetimes where the spatial topology is that of a non-trivial torus bundle over a circle. Compared to the case of the torus these are topologically twisted. They include inhomogeneous generalizations of the spatially homogeneous vacuum spacetimes of Bianchi types II and VI${}_0$. Using similar procedures it is shown that the vacuum solutions of Bianchi type VII${}_0$ are isometric to a class of Gowdy spacetimes, the circular loop spacetimes, thus establishing links between results in the literature which were not previously known to be related to each other.