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Cosmological post-Newtonian expansions to arbitrary order

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2010-02-23 v1

Abstract

We prove the existence of a large class of one parameter families of solutions to the Einstein-Euler equations that depend on the singular parameter \ep=vT/c\ep=v_T/c (0<\ep<\ep0)(0<\ep < \ep_0), where cc is the speed of light, and vTv_T is a typical speed of the gravitating fluid. These solutions are shown to exist on a common spacetime slab M[0,T)×\Tbb3M\cong [0,T)\times \Tbb^3, and converge as \ep0\ep \searrow 0 to a solution of the cosmological Poisson-Euler equations of Newtonian gravity. Moreover, we establish that these solutions can be expanded in the parameter \ep\ep to any specified order with expansion coefficients that satisfy \ep\ep-independent (nonlocal) symmetric hyperbolic equations.

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@article{arxiv.0908.2836,
  title  = {Cosmological post-Newtonian expansions to arbitrary order},
  author = {Todd A. Oliynyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.2836},
  year   = {2010}
}