Toward physical cosmology: focus on inhomogeneous geometry and its non-perturbative effects

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/28/16/164007zbMATH Open1225.83087arXiv1103.2016OpenAlexW3101226085WikidataQ125130925 ScholiaQ125130925MaRDI QIDQ3173064FDOQ3173064

Thomas Buchert

Publication date: 10 October 2011

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

Abstract: We outline the key-steps toward the construction of a physical, fully relativistic cosmology. The influence of inhomogeneities on the effective evolution history of the Universe is encoded in backreaction terms and expressed through spatially averaged geometrical invariants. These are absent and potential candidates for the missing dark sources in the standard model. Since they can be interpreted as energies of an emerging scalar field (the morphon), we are in the position to propose a strategy of how phenomenological scalar field models for Dark Energy, Dark Matter and Inflation, that are usually added as fundamental sources to a homogeneous-geometry (FLRW) cosmology, can be potentially traced back to inhomogeneous geometrical properties of space and its embedding into spacetime. We lay down a line of arguments that is - thus far only qualitatively - conclusive, and we address open problems of quantitative nature, related to the interpretation of observations. We discuss within a covariant framework ... [abridged]

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2016

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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• Dark matter from backreaction? Collapse models on galaxy cluster scales
• Gauss–Bonnet–Chern approach to the averaged Universe
• Cosmic bulk viscosity through backreaction
• The averaging problem on the past null cone in inhomogeneous dust cosmologies
• The effects of inhomogeneities on the cosmology of type IIB conifold transitions
• Editorial note to: On the Newtonian limit of Einstein's theory of gravitation (by Jürgen Ehlers)
• On average properties of inhomogeneous fluids in general relativity. III: General fluid cosmologies
• Averaged Lemaître–Tolman–Bondi dynamics
• Backreaction in cosmic screening approach
• Lie sphere geometry in lattice cosmology
• Disappearance and emergence of space and time in quantum gravity

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