The averaging problem on the past null cone in inhomogeneous dust cosmologies
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DOI10.1007/S10714-022-03051-XzbMATH Open1528.83129arXiv2202.10798MaRDI QIDQ6132901FDOQ6132901
Henk van Elst, Asta Heinesen, Thomas Buchert
Publication date: 15 July 2023
Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Cosmological models typically neglect the complicated nature of the spacetime manifold at small scales in order to hypothesize idealized general relativistic solutions for describing the average dynamics of the Universe. Although these solutions are remarkably successful in accounting for data, they introduce a number of puzzles in cosmology, and their foundational assumptions are therefore important to test. In this paper, we go beyond the usual assumptions in cosmology and propose a formalism for averaging the local general relativistic spacetime on an observer's past null cone: we formulate average properties of light fronts as they propagate from a cosmological emitter to an observer. The energy-momentum tensor is composed of an irrotational dust source and a cosmological constant -- the same components as in the CDM model for late cosmic times -- but the metric solution is not emph{a priori}constrained to be locally homogeneous or isotropic. This generally makes the large-scale dynamics depart from that of a simple Friedmann--Lema^i tre--Robertson--Walker solution through emph{backreaction} effects. Our formalism quantifies such departures through a fully covariant system of area-averaged equations on the light fronts propagating towards an observer, which can be directly applied to analytical and numerical investigations of cosmic observables. For this purpose, we formulate light front averages of observable quantities, including the effective angular diameter distance and the cosmological redshift drift and we also discuss the backreaction effects for these observables.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10798
Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Complex vector fields, holomorphic foliations, (mathbb{C})-actions (32M25) Frequency-response methods in control theory (93C80) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)
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