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On Relativistic Perturbations of Second and Higher Order

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics

Abstract

We present the results of a study of the gauge dependence of spacetime perturbations. In particular, we consider gauge invariance in general, we give a generating formula for gauge transformations to an arbitrary order n, and explicit transformation rules at second order.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9611048,
  title  = {On Relativistic Perturbations of Second and Higher Order},
  author = {M. Bruni and S. Matarrese and S. Mollerach and S. Sonego},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9611048},
  year   = {2007}
}

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6 pages, latex, with special style included, Proceedings of the 12th Italian Conference on General Relativity and Gravitational Physics