AVERAGING EINSTEIN'S EQUATIONS: THE LINEARIZED CASE

DOI10.1142/S0218271807010535MaRDI QIDQ3500291zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors William R. Stoeger, Amina Helmi, D. F. Torres

Publication date 3 June 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9904020

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein equationsgravityperturbations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We introduce a simple and straight-forward averaging procedure, which is a generalization of one which is commonly used in electrodynamics, and show that it possesses all the characteristics we require for linearized averaging in general relativity and cosmology -- for weak-field and perturbed FLRW situations. In particular we demonstrate that it yields quantities which are approximately tensorial in these situations, and that its application to an exact FLRW metric yields another FLRW metric, to first-order in integrals over the local coordinates. Finally, we indicate some important limits of any linearized averaging procedure with respect to cosmological perturbations which are the result of averages over large amplitude small and intermediate scale inhomogeneities, and show our averaging procedure can be approximately implemented by that of Zotov and Stoeger in these cases.

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