Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2026/iii/paper-310/3/d/solution

In synchronous gauge in cosmology, , so the explicit metric terms vanish. Symmetry of the covariant energy-momentum tensor and the background metric imply
Hence the two expansion terms in part (c) combine to . Substituting the scalar velocity potential and scalar anisotropic stress definitions gives
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