Inhomogeneous universes in observational coordinates

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/2/013MaRDI QIDQ4869475zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Roy Maartens, Neil P. Humphreys, William R. Stoeger, D. R. Matravers

Publication date 11 September 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9511045

zbMATH Keywords

observational coordinatesinhomogeneous dust universesobservational characterizations of homogeneityreduction of the field equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05)

Abstract: Isotropic inhomogeneous dust universes are analysed via observational coordinates based on the past light cones of the observer's galactic worldline. The field equations are reduced to a single first--order {sc ode} in observational variables on the past light cone, completing the observational integration scheme. This leads naturally to an explicit exact solution which is locally nearly homogeneous (i.e. {sc frw}), but at larger redshift develops inhomogeneity. New observational characterisations of homogeneity ({sc frw} universes) are also given.

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