Redundancy of the cosmological evolution equations and its relationship with the initial conditions
Abstract
It is known that in Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker cosmology one has more number of dynamical equations, compared to the number of unknown variables. This fact makes some equations redundant. The situation becomes complicated because all the relevant differential equations in cosmology are not of the same order. In this article we study the fate of the redundant equations. We show that this redundancy is inevitable in general relativity. It is shown that this redundancy is primarily responsible for a special role of one of the Friedmann equations, which constrains the initial values of the problem. Our method of analyzing the dynamical structure of the theories relies on an operational approach and can be generalized further.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2404.13332,
title = {Redundancy of the cosmological evolution equations and its relationship with the initial conditions},
author = {Kaushik Bhattacharya and Dipanjan Dey and Priyanka Saha},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.13332},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
10 pages, Latex file, Accepted for publication in Resonance