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Temperature fluctuations in an inhomogeneous diffusive fluid

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-02-27 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We discuss metric perturbations of the relativistic diffusion equation around the homogeneous Juttner equilibrium of massless particles in a homogeneous expanding universe. The metric perturbation describes matter distribution and the gravitational wave background in an inhomogeneous universe. We show that the lowest order perturbation can be treated as a variation of temperature. We derive a formula expressing temperature fluctuations in terms of the diffusion and tensor power spectrum. We discuss the multipole expansion of the fluctuations in the presence of diffusion.

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@article{arxiv.1408.7116,
  title  = {Temperature fluctuations in an inhomogeneous diffusive fluid},
  author = {Z. Haba},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.7116},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

14 pages,minor corrections

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