Investigation on gradient solitons in perfect fluid spacetimes

Abstract

This article concerns the study of perfect fluid spacetimes equipped with different types of gradient solitons. It is shown that if a perfect fluid spacetime with Killing velocity vector admits a τ-Einstein soliton of gradient type, then the spacetime represents phantom regime, or ψ remains invariant under the velocity vector field ρ. Besides, we establish that in a perfect fluid spacetime with constant scalar curvature, if the Lorentzian metric is the gradient τ-Einstein soliton, then either the τ-Einstein gradient potential function is pointwise collinear with ρ, or the spacetime represents stiff matter fluid. Furthermore, we prove that under certain conditions, a perfect fluid spacetime turns into a generalized Robertson–Walker spacetime, as well as a static spacetime and such a spacetime is of Petrov type I, D or O. We also characterize perfect fluid spacetimes whose Lorentzian metric is equipped with gradient m-quasi Einstein solitons and that the perfect fluid spacetime has vanishing expansion scalar, or it represents dark energy era under certain restriction on the potential function.