Solution

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In the homogeneous background, and the physical velocity is the Hubble flow
The comoving coordinate is held fixed by the time derivative in the fluid equation, so
Moreover, spatial homogeneity gives . The Euler equation therefore reduces to
Taking the divergence in three spatial dimensions gives
Consistency with the Poisson equation,
then requires
This is the pressureless, zero-cosmological-constant Raychaudhuri equation, obtained by the Newtonian fluid derivation of the Raychaudhuri equation.

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