Abstract

A perfect-fluid space-time of dimension n ≥ 4, with (1) irrotational velocity vector field and (2) null divergence of the Weyl tensor, is a generalised Robertson-Walker space-time with an Einstein fiber. Condition (1) is verified whenever pressure and energy density are related by an equation of state. The contraction of the Weyl tensor with the velocity vector field is zero. Conversely, a generalized Robertson-Walker space-time with null divergence of the Weyl tensor is a perfect-fluid space-time.

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