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It has been suggested that the accelerated expansion of the Universe is due to backreaction of small scale density perturbations on the large scale spacetime geometry. While evidence against this suggestion has accumulated, it has not yet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-09-16 Eran Rosenthal , Éanna É. Flanagan

Several problems in physics, in particular the averaging problem in gravity, can be described in a formalism derived from the real-space Renormalization Group (RG) methods. It is shown that the RG flow is provided by the Ricci-Hamilton…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamilla Piotrkowska

The subject of cosmological backreaction in General Relativity is often approached by coordinate-dependent and metric-based analyses. We present in this letter an averaging formalism for the scalar parts of Einstein's equations that is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-04 Thomas Buchert , Pierre Mourier , Xavier Roy

A formalism for analyzing the complete set of field equations describing Macroscopic Gravity is presented. Using this formalism, a cosmological solution to the Macroscopic Gravity equations is determined. It is found that if a particular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 R. J. van den Hoogen

We show that derivation of Friedmann's equations from the Einstein-Hilbert action, paying attention to the requirements of isotropy and homogeneity during the variation, leads to a different interpretation of pressure than what is typically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-15 Kevin S. Croker , Joel L. Weiner

We study the volume averaging of inhomogeneous metrics within GR and discuss its shortcomings such as gauge dependence, singular behavior as a result of caustics, and causality violations. To remedy these shortcomings, we suggest some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Shahram Khosravi , Ehsan Kourkchi , Reza Mansouri

We compute all 2-covariant tensors naturally constructed from a semiriemannian metric which are divergence-free and have weight greater than -2. As a consequence, it follows a characterization of the Einstein tensor as the only, up to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-27 Jose Navarro , Juan B. Sancho

The usual derivation of Einstein's field equations from the Einstein--Hilbert action is performed by silently assuming the metric tensor's symmetric character. If this symmetry is not assumed, the result is a new theory, such as Einstein's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 Viktor T. Toth

In a Lorentzian spacetime there exists a smooth regular line element field $(\bm{X},-\bm{X}) $ and a unit vector $ \bm{u} $ collinear with one of the pair of vectors in the line element field. An orthogonal decomposition of symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-12 Gary Nash

The gravitational field equations on cosmological scales are obtained by averaging the Einstein field equations of general relativity. By assuming spatial homogeneity and isotropy on the largest scales, the local inhomogeneities affect the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Coley

Renormalization procedure is generalized to be applicable for non renormalizable theories. It is shown that introduction of an extra expansion parameter allows to get rid of divergences and express physical quantities as series of finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 J. Gegelia , G. Japaridze , N. Kiknadze , K. Turashvili

Consider a mean-reverting equation, generalized in the sense it is driven by a 1-dimensional centered Gaussian process with H\"older continuous paths on $[0,T]$ ($T > 0$). Taking that equation in rough paths sense only gives local existence…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-16 Nicolas Marie

The problem of construction of a continuous (macroscopic) matter model for a given point-like (microscopic) matter distribution in general relativity is formulated. The existing approaches are briefly reviewed and a physical analogy with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Giovanni Montani , Remo Ruffini , Roustam Zalaletdinov

This paper examines an averaging technique applied to the transport equations as an alternative to vanishing viscosity. Such techniques have been shown to be valid shock-regularizations of the Burgers equation and the Euler equations, but…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-08 John Villavert , Kamran Mohseni

We consider the inverse problem of reconstructing inhomogeneities by performing a finite number of scattering measurements of acoustic type in the time-harmonic setting. We set up the reconstruction as a fully discrete variational problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Daniela Di Donato , Luca Rondi

It is nowadays clear that General Relativity cannot be the definitive theory of Gravitation due to several shortcomings that come out both from theoretical and experimental viewpoints. At large scales (astrophysical and cosmological) the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-02 S. Capozziello , M. De Laurentis , M. Francaviglia , S. Mercadante

The Averaging problem in general relativity and cosmology is discussed. The approach of macroscopic gravity to resolve the problem is presented. An exact cosmological solution to the equations of macroscopic gravity is given and its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Roustam Zalaletdinov

We deal with the solution of a generic linear inverse problem in the Hilbert space setting. The exact right hand side is unknown and only accessible through discretised measurements corrupted by white noise with unknown arbitrary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Bastian Harrach , Tim Jahn , Roland Potthast

We develop a formalism for General Relativistic N-body simulations in the weak field regime, suitable for cosmological applications. The problem is kept tractable by retaining the metric perturbations to first order, the first derivatives…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-17 Julian Adamek , David Daverio , Ruth Durrer , Martin Kunz

We present the Bayesian analysis of four different types of backreation models, which are based on the Buchert equations. In this approach, one considers a solution to the Einstein equations for a general matter distribution and then an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 Aleksandra Kurek , Krzysztof Bolejko , Marek Szydlowski