COSMOLOGICAL ACCELERATION FROM STRUCTURE FORMATION

DOI10.1142/S0218271806009728MaRDI QIDQ3434347zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Syksy Räsänen

Publication date 25 April 2007

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605632

zbMATH Keywords

backreactiondark energy theoryfluid space--times

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: We discuss the Buchert equations, which describe the average expansion of an inhomogeneous dust universe. In the limit of small perturbations, they reduce to the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker equations. However, when the universe is very inhomogeneous, the behaviour can be qualitatively different from the FRW case. In particular, the average expansion rate can accelerate even though the local expansion rate decelerates everywhere. We clarify the physical meaning of this paradoxical feature with a simple toy model, and demonstrate how acceleration is intimately connected with gravitational collapse. This provides a link to structure formation, which in turn has a preferred time around the era when acceleration has been observed to start.

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