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Averaged Lema\^itre-Tolman-Bondi dynamics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-01-18 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider cosmological backreaction effects in Buchert's averaging formalism on the basis of an explicit solution of the Lema\^itre-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) dynamics which is linear in the LTB curvature parameter and has an inhomogeneous bang time. The volume Hubble rate is found in terms of the volume scale factor which represents a derivation of the simplest phenomenological solution of Buchert's equations in which the fractional densities corresponding to average curvature and kinematic backreaction are explicitly determined by the parameters of the underlying LTB solution at the boundary of the averaging volume. This configuration represents an exactly solvable toy model but it does not adequately describe our "real" Universe.

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@article{arxiv.1608.00452,
  title  = {Averaged Lema\^itre-Tolman-Bondi dynamics},
  author = {Eddy G. Chirinos Isidro and Rodrigo M. Barbosa and Oliver F. Piattella and Winfried Zimdahl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.00452},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

26 pages, 2 figures, comments and references added, to appear in Class. Quantum Grav

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