Irreversibility and gravitational radiation: A proof of Bondi’s conjecture
L. Herrera, A. Di Prisco, J. Ospino
Abstract
It is shown that the evolution of an axially and reflection symmetric fluid distribution, satisfying the Tolman condition for thermal equilibrium, is not accompanied by the emission of gravitational radiation. This result, which was conjectured by Bondi many years ago, expresses the irreversibility associated to the emission of gravitational waves. The observational consequences emerging from this result are commented. The resulting models are not only nondissipative and vorticity free, but also shear-free and geodesic, furthermore all their complexity factors vanish.
Topics & Concepts
PhysicsGravitational waveConjectureGeodesicClassical mechanicsGravitationVorticityAxial symmetryMathematical physicsAstrophysicsMechanicsQuantum mechanicsMathematical analysisVortexPure mathematicsMathematicsCosmology and Gravitation TheoriesFluid Dynamics and Turbulent FlowsAdvanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics