General solution of Liouville's equation in Robertson-Walker space-times

S. D. Maharaj; R. Maartens

doi:10.1007/BF00759101

General solution of Liouville's equation in Robertson-Walker space-times

S. D. Maharaj^*, R. Maartens

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Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation

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Abstract

We obtain the general solution of Liouville's equation in Robertson-Walker space-times, based on Killing vector constants of the motion and a new time-dependent first integral. For photons the solution is generated by conformai Killing vectors.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1217-1222
Number of pages	6
Journal	General Relativity and Gravitation
Volume	19
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00759101
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 1987

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