A semi-symmetric metric connection, perfect fluid space-time and phantom barrier

Abstract: We consider a concircularly semi-symmetric metric connection and its application. The Ricci tensors with respect to the concircularly semi-symmetric metric connection are symmetric, and they are used to define Einstein type manifolds. In this way, conditions under which a pseudo-Riemannian manifold is quasi-Einstein are obtained. On a Lorentzian manifold, a concircularly semi-symmetric metric connection with a unit timelike generator becomes a semi-symmetric metric $P$-connection, and a Lorentzian manifold becomes a GRW space-time. The scalar curvature of a perfect fluid space-time with that connection is not constant in the general case. By applying previously established results for quasi-Einstein manifolds, we examine the cases when the scalar curvature is constant. Furthermore, an application to the theory of relativity is presented, and the value of the equation of state is examined. It is ultimately shown that the equation of state in a perfect fluid space-time that satisfies Einstein field equation with cosmological constant and admits a unit timelike torse-forming vector represents a phantom barrier.