Averaging procedure in variable-G cosmologies

DOI10.1007/S10714-009-0834-6zbMATH Open1185.83029arXiv0805.1203OpenAlexW3104855076WikidataQ57514543 ScholiaQ57514543MaRDI QIDQ848689FDOQ848689

Authors: Vincenzo F. Cardone, Giampiero Esposito 

Publication date: 4 March 2010

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Previous work in the literature had built a formalism for spatially averaged equations for the scale factor, giving rise to an averaged Raychaudhuri equation and averaged Hamiltonian constraint, which involve a backreaction source term. The present paper extends these equations to include models with variable Newton parameter and variable cosmological term, motivated by the nonperturbative renormalization program for quantum gravity based upon the Einstein-Hilbert action. We focus on the Brans-Dicke form of the renormalization-group improved action functional. The coupling between backreaction and spatially averaged three-dimensional scalar curvature is found to survive, and a variable-G cosmic quintet is found to emerge. Interestingly, under suitable assumptions, an approximate solution can be found where the early universe tends to a FLRW model, while keeping track of the original inhomogeneities through three effective fluids. The resulting qualitative picture is that of a universe consisting of baryons only, while inhomogeneities average out to give rise to the full dark-side phenomenology.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.1203

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zbMATH Keywords

renormalization groupBrans-DickeADM formalismspatial averages

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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