MODIFIED AVERAGING PROCESSES IN COSMOLOGY AND THE STRUCTURED FRW MODEL

DOI10.1142/S0218271809015011zbMATH Open1168.83345arXiv0709.2558MaRDI QIDQ3395544FDOQ3395544

Authors: Shahram Khosravi, Reza Mansouri, Ehsan Kourkchi 

Publication date: 5 September 2009

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

Abstract: We study the volume averaging of inhomogeneous metrics within GR and discuss its shortcomings such as gauge dependence, singular behavior as a result of caustics, and causality violations. To remedy these shortcomings, we suggest some modifications to this method. As a case study we focus on the inhomogeneous structured FRW model based on a flat LTB metric. The effect of averaging is then studied in terms of an effective backreaction fluid. It is shown that, contrary to the claims in the literature, the backreaction fluid behaves like a dark matter component, instead of dark energy, having a density of the order of 10^{-5} times the matter density, and most importantly, it is gauge dependent.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.2558

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zbMATH Keywords

inhomogeneous modelsLTB metricaveraging in cosmology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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