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Sage Manifolds: Asymptotically de Sitter Spacetime in Fefferman-Graham Gauge

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Loreno Heer gravatar image

I am new to the Sage Manifolds package and I am trying to model an asymptotically de Sitter spacetime in the Fefferman-Graham gauge (also called Ambient Metric). In the article I am currently reading this is defined as such:

g=3dρ2Λρ2+3qabdxadxbΛρ2,

where qab=qab(ρ,xc) smooth, and Λ>0 is the cosmological constant.

I want to input the above data into Sage and compute the Ricci curvature tensor and then solve the (vacuum) Einstein equation (Rαβ=Λgαβ) using the expansion of q=q(0)+ρq(1)+ρ2q(2)+ where q(n)ab=1n!nρnqab|ρ=0.

I am supposed to get

q(1)ab=0 q(2)ab=R˚ q^{(0)ab}q_{ab}^{(3)} = 0 D^aq_{ab}^{(3)} = 0

where \mathring{R}_{ab} and \mathring{R} are the Ricci tensor and scalar of q^{(0)} and D its covariant derivative. I looked at the sage manifolds tutorial. And it is somewhat clear how to define a manifold and metric. However what I can not figure out is how to have a metric with symbolic functions (eg. q above) and the cosmological constant which I prefer to just keep as a symbolic variable.

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answered 2 years ago

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updated 2 years ago

Computations of the Ricci tensor in Sage are explicit, in given coordinate charts, and you cannot keep an undefined (symbolic) metric q_{ab}. What you can do though is to have some components of a metric expressed in terms of (unspecified) symbolic functions. An example is provided by the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker-Lemaître metric, the components of which contain the symbolic function a(t), see this notebook, which introduces as well the cosmological constant \Lambda as a symbolic variable.

Regarding tensor expansions with respect to a parameter \rho, they are implemented in Sage, see the methods series_expansion, truncate and set_calc_order and this notebook for an example of use.

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