English

Inhomogeneous cosmological models and $H_0$ observations

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2012-12-11 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We address some recent erroneous claim that H0H_0 observations are difficult to accommodate with LTB cosmological models, showing how to construct solutions in agreement with an arbitrary value of H0H_0 by re-writing the exact solution in terms of dimensionless parameters and functions. This approach can be applied to fully exploit LTB solutions in designing models alternative to dark energy without making any restrictive or implicit assumption about the inhomogeneity profile. The same solution can also be used to study structure formation in the regime in which perturbation theory is not enough and an exact solution of the Einstein's equation is required, or to estimate the effects of a local inhomogeneities on the apparent equation of state of dark energy.

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@article{arxiv.1112.1777,
  title  = {Inhomogeneous cosmological models and $H_0$ observations},
  author = {Antonio Enea Romano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.1777},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

14 pages, revised version accepted by IJMPD