Separately conserved cosmological fluids

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Separately conserved cosmological fluids by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-11-05
A noninteracting perfect fluid in general relativity has , so . If energy is transferred between species, source terms appear and only their sum vanishes. The Friedmann equation still involves the sum of all component stress tensors because all components share one spacetime metric.

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