Rotating Bianchi type V dust models generalizing the k =-1 Friedmann model

The Einstein equations are investigated for a rotating Bianchi type V dust model in which one of the Killing fields is spanned on velocity and rotation (case 1.2.2.2 in the classification scheme of the earlier papers). A first integral of the field equations is found, and with a special value of this integral coordinate transformations are used to eliminate two components of the metric. The k = -1 Friedmann model is shown to be contained among the solutions in the limit of zero rotation. The field equations for the simplified metric are reduced to 3 second-order ordinary differential equations that determine 3 metric components plus a first integral that algebraically determines the fourth component. First derivatives of the metric components are subject to a constraint (a second-degree polynomial with coefficients depending on the functions). It is shown that the set does not follow from a Lagrangian of the Hilbert type. The group of Lie point-symmetries of the set is found, it is two-dimensional noncommutative. Finally, a method of searching for first integrals (for sets of differential equations) that are polynomials of degree 1 or 2 in the first derivatives is applied. No such first integrals exist. The method is used to find a constraint (of degree 1 in first derivatives) that could be imposed on the metric, but it leads to a vacuum solution, and so is of no interest for cosmology. (C) 2001 American Institute of Physics.