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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 ii Paper 1 9B a Solution by
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In the homogeneous background, and the physical velocity is the Hubble flowThe comoving coordinate is held fixed by the time derivative in the fluid equation, soMoreover, spatial homogeneity gives . The Euler equation therefore reduces toTaking the divergence in three spatial dimensions givesConsistency with the Poisson equation,then requiresThis is the pressureless, zero-cosmological-constant Raychaudhuri equation, obtained by the Newtonian fluid derivation of the Raychaudhuri equation.
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