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Gauges and cosmological backreaction

Journal Article · · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
 [1];  [2]
  1. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Philosophenweg 16, 69120 Heidelberg (Germany)
  2. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89069 Ulm (Germany)

We present a formalism for spatial averaging in cosmology applicable to general spacetimes and coordinates, and allowing the easy incorporation of a wide variety of matter sources. We apply this formalism to a Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker universe perturbed to second-order and present the corrections to the background in an unfixed gauge. We then present the corrections that arise in uniform curvature and conformal Newtonian gauges.

OSTI ID:
22273107
Journal Information:
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 2009; ISSN 1475-7516
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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