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Coarse-graining of inhomogeneous dust flow in General Relativity via isometric embeddings

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-05-14 v1

Abstract

We present a new approach to coarse-graining of variables describing dust flow in GR. It is based on assigning quasi-local shear, twist and expansion to 2-dimensional surfaces with the help of isometric embeddings into the 3-dimensional Euclidean space and deriving the time evolution equations for them. In contrast to the popular Buchert's scheme it allows to coarse-grain tensorial quantities in a coordinate-independent way. The framework can be used to estimate backreaction in inhomogeneous cosmological models.

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@article{arxiv.1001.2031,
  title  = {Coarse-graining of inhomogeneous dust flow in General Relativity via isometric embeddings},
  author = {Mikolaj Korzynski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.2031},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Submitted to the Proceedings of the Invisible Universe Conference Paris 2009