Spectral representation and the averaging problem in cosmology

DOI10.1023/A:1001977900785MaRDI QIDQ5931063zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Masafumi Seriu

Publication date 2 May 2001

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0001014

zbMATH Keywords

averaging problemcosmologyspectral representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We investigate the averaging problem in cosmology as the problem of introducing a distance between spaces. We first introduce the spectral distance, which is a measure of closeness between spaces defined in terms of the spectra of the Laplacian. Then we define a space S, the space of all spaces equipped with the spectral distance. We argue that this space S can be regarded as a metric space and that it also possess other desirable properties. These facts make the space S a suitable arena for spacetime physics. We apply the spectral framework to the averaging problem: We sketch the model-fitting procedure in terms of the spectral representation, and also discuss briefly how to analyze the dynamical aspects of the averaging procedure with this scheme. In these analyses, we are naturally led to the concept of the apparatus- and the scale-dependent effective evolution of the universe. These observations suggest that the spectral scheme seems to be suitable for the quantitative analysis of the averaging problem in cosmology.

Review text

Cosmology requires a mapping procedure from reality to a model. This means, that such a procedure is a procedure of averaging the real, complicated geometry in some manner in order to assign a simplified model-geometry to it. The paper investigates such an averaging problem by introducing spectral distances. This is a measure of closeness between spaces defined in terms of the spectra of the Laplacian.

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