Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2021/ii/paper-4/37c/a/i/solution

For the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker metric in Cartesian spatial coordinates, the only time-dependent components are . The Christoffel symbol formula therefore gives
Substituting these into the definition of the Ricci tensor gives
Thus, with no summation over , the requested components are , , and .

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