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Past exam of the general relativity and cosmology course of the University of Oxford 2013 1 b Solution by
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A pressureless relativistic fluid has stress-energy tensor , with four-velocity normalized by . In its rest frame, , so . Here is rest-frame mass density, or energy density divided by .
For the linearized Ricci tensor and scalar, discard the quadratic connection terms. The contracted connection is . Differentiation then givesThe Ricci scalar uses the zeroth-order inverse metric, , because multiplying first-order curvature by another metric perturbation would again be second order. These are the linearized curvature of a two-potential weak-field metric in the paper's Riemann curvature tensor sign convention.
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