A COVARIANT ROAD TO SPATIAL AVERAGING IN COSMOLOGY: SCALAR CORRECTIONS TO THE COSMOLOGICAL EQUATIONS

DOI10.1142/S0218271808012322zbMATH Open1153.83436arXiv0705.2380MaRDI QIDQ3532181FDOQ3532181

Authors: Aseem Paranjape 

Publication date: 3 November 2008

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

Abstract: A consistent approach to Cosmology requires an explicit averaging of the Einstein equations, to describe a homogeneous and isotropic geometry. Such an averaging will in general modify the Einstein equations. The averaging procedure due to Buchert has attracted considerable attention recently since it offers the tantalizing hope of explaining the phenomenon of dark energy through such corrections. This approach has been criticized, however, on the grounds that its effects may be gauge artifacts. We apply the fully covariant formalism of Zalaletdinov's Macroscopic Gravity and show that, after making some essential gauge choices, the Cosmological equations receive emph{spacetime scalar} corrections which are therefore observable in principle, and further, that the broad structure of these corrections is emph{identical} to those derived by Buchert.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.2380

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zbMATH Keywords

general relativitycosmology and dark energy

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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