Ricci flow deformation of cosmological initial data sets

DOI10.1142/9789812772350_0019MaRDI QIDQ3400855zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mauro Carfora, Thomas Buchert

Publication date 5 February 2010

Published in Waves and Stability in Continuous Media (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0553

zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyFriedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmologyperturbations in cosmologyRicci flow deformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: Ricci flow deformation of cosmological initial data sets in general relativity is a technique for generating families of initial data sets which potentially would allow to interpolate between distinct spacetimes. This idea has been around since the appearance of the Ricci flow on the scene, but it has been difficult to turn it into a sound mathematical procedure. In this expository talk we illustrate, how Perelman's recent results in Ricci flow theory can considerably improve on such a situation. From a physical point of view this analysis can be related to the issue of finding a constant-curvature template spacetime for the inhomogeneous Universe, relevant to the interpretation of observational data and, hence, bears relevance to the dark energy and dark matter debates. These techniques provide control on curvature fluctuations (intrinsic backreaction terms) in their relation to the averaged matter distribution.

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