Back Reaction of Gravitational Perturbations
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
The back reaction of gravitational perturbations in a homogeneous background is determined by an effective energy-momentum tensor quadratic in the perturbations. We show that this nonlinear feedback effect is important in the case of long wavelength scalar perturbations in inflationary universe models. We also show how to solve an old problem concerning the gauge dependence of the effective energy-momentum tensor of perturbations.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9702004,
title = {Back Reaction of Gravitational Perturbations},
author = {L. R. Abramo and R. H. Brandenberger and V. M. Mukhanov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9702004},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
3 pages, LaTex using sprocl.sty, to appear in: Proceedings of the 18th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics (eds Olinto, Frieman and Schramm, World Scientific)