3 + 1 approach to the long-wavelength iteration scheme

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/2/014zbMATH Open0869.53063arXivhep-th/0507015OpenAlexW3101379107MaRDI QIDQ3130077FDOQ3130077

Authors: G. L. Comer 

Publication date: 2 September 1997

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Large-scale inhomogeneities and anisotropies are modeled using the Long Wavelength Iteration Scheme. In this scheme solutions are obtained as expansions in spatial gradients, which are taken to be small. It is shown that the choice of foliation for spacetime can make the iteration scheme more effective in two respects: (i) the shift vector can be chosen so as to dilute the effect of anisotropy on the late-time value of the extrinsic curvature of the spacelike hypersurfaces of the foliation; and (ii) pure gauge solutions present in a similar calculation using the synchronous gauge vanish when the spacelike hypersurfaces have extrinsic curvature with constant trace. We furthermore verify the main conclusion of the synchronous gauge calculation which is large-scale inhomogeneity decays if the matter--considered to be that of a perfect-fluid with a barotropic equation of state--violates the strong-energy condition. Finally, we obtain the solution for the lapse function and discuss its late-time behaviour. It is found that the lapse function is well-behaved when the matter violates the strong energy condition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0507015

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zbMATH Keywords

anisotropyEinstein equationsperfect fluidinhomogenitieslong-wavelength iteration scheme

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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• δMformalism: a new approach to cosmological perturbation theory in anisotropic inflation
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