The radiative transfer for polarized radiation at second order in cosmological perturbations

DOI10.1007/S10714-009-0782-1zbMath1176.83173arXiv0809.3245OpenAlexW2062457264MaRDI QIDQ1031903

Cyril Pitrou

Publication date: 23 October 2009

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3245

zbMATH Keywords

polarizationBoltzmann equationcosmologyradiative transfercosmic microwave backgroundnon-Gaussianitynon-linear cosmological perturbations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25)

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Cites Work

• The radiative transfer at second order: a full treatment of the Boltzmann equation with polarization
• Perturbations of spacetime: gauge transformations and gauge invariance at second order and beyond
• Evolution of second-order cosmological perturbations
• Gauge-invariant Boltzmann equation and the fluid limit

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