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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 iii Paper 312 4 a Solution by
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In the absence of scalar anisotropic stress, the traceless spatial Einstein field equations giveThe photon mass-shell condition , together with and , gives to first orderUse the time component of the geodesic equation, divide it by , and substitute the stated Christoffel symbols. Keeping the perturbed ratios where they multiply the background terms makes those terms cancel. Comparing the result with the total derivative of yieldsThe first term is the time-dependent gravitational redshift and the second is the gravitational frequency shift along the photon direction.
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