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Past exam of the general relativity and cosmology course of the University of Oxford 2013 1 c Solution by
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The Einstein tensor is . Thus , where the time raising introduces the minus sign. Substitution cancels the and time-derivative terms in that component and givesThe right sides follow from the Einstein field equations with zero cosmological constant. The full equations also contain the momentum constraint for dust at rest to this order. Specifying arbitrary time-dependent potentials without that constraint would not give a solution of all the Einstein field equations.
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