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Averaging and evolving inhomogeneities are non-commuting operations. This implies the existence of deviations of an averaged model from the standard Friedmann-Lemaitre cosmologies. We quantify these deviations, encoded in a backreaction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-26 Thomas Buchert , Martin Kerscher , Christian Sicka

The effective evolution of an inhomogeneous universe model in Einstein's theory of gravitation may be described in terms of spatially averaged scalar variables. This evolution can be modeled by solutions of a set of Friedmann equations for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-25 Thomas Buchert

We present a general gauge invariant formalism for defining cosmological averages that are relevant for observations based on light-like signals. Such averages involve either null hypersurfaces corresponding to a family of past light-cones…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-01 M. Gasperini , G. Marozzi , F. Nugier , G. Veneziano

This is the third paper in a series of four in which we use space adiabatic methods in order to incorporate backreactions among the homogeneous and between the homogeneous and inhomogeneous degrees of freedom in quantum cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-20 S. Schander , T. Thiemann

We derive the renormalized nonequilibrium equations of motion for a scalar field and its quantum back reaction in a conformally flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe. We use a fully covariant formalism proposed by us recently for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Jurgen Baacke , Katrin Heitmann , Carsten Patzold

In the context of second order perturbation theory, cosmological backreaction is seen to rescale both time and the scale factor. The issue of the homogeneous limit of long-wavelength perturbations is addressed and backreaction is quantified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Parry

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

We present a new approach for averaging in general relativity and cosmology. After a short review of the theory originally taken from the equivalence problem, we consider two ways how to deal with averaging based on Cartan scalars. We apply…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-23 Petr Kaspar , Otakar Svitek

The question of the averaging of inhomogeneous spacetimes in cosmology is important for the correct interpretation of cosmological data. In this paper we suggest a conceptually simpler approach to averaging in cosmology based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Coley , J. Brannlund , J. Latta

It is well-known that spacetime averaging is an operation that does not commute with building the Einstein tensor. In the framework of Macroscopic gravity (MG), a covariant averaging procedure, this non-commutativity gives averaged field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-28 Anish Agashe , Mustapha Ishak

The Hubble tension cast a blight on the standard cosmology. As a possible attitude to the problem, the local variation of the expansion rate in an inhomogeneous cosmology has been proposed where the spatial averaging over a finite domain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-29 Masanori Tomonaga , Toshifumi Futamase

Most cosmological models studied today are based on the assumption of homogeneity and isotropy. Observationally one can find evidence that supports these assumptions on very large scales, the strongest being the almost isotropy of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Sicka , Thomas Buchert , Martin Kerscher

We develop a new formalism for the treatment of gravitational backreaction in the cosmological setting. The approach is inspired by projective techniques in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. We employ group-averaging with respect to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-06 Charis Anastopoulos

The geometric foundations of General Relativity are revisited, with particular attention to its gauge invariance, as a key to understanding the true nature of spacetime. Beyond the common image of spacetime as a deformable 'fabric' filling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Jaume de Haro , Emilio Elizalde

Relativistic cosmological perturbation analyses can be made based on several different fundamental gauge conditions. In the pressureless limit the variables in certain gauge conditions show the correct Newtonian behaviors. We consider the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Hwang , H. Noh

For the study of cosmological backreacktion an avaragng procedure is required. In this work a covariant and gauge invariant averaging formalism for finite volumes will be developed. This averaging will be applied to the scalar parts of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-27 Juri Smirnov

Although the cosmological perturbations with inverse-volume corrections from loop quantum cosmology have been studied using the anomaly-free algebra approach in much of the literature, there still remains an important issue that some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-18 Yu Han

We propose and construct a two-parameter perturbative expansion around a Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker geometry that can be used to model high-order gravitational effects in the presence of non-linear structure. This framework…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Sophia R. Goldberg , Timothy Clifton , Karim A. Malik

The resolution of the problem of cosmological singularity in the framework of gauge theories of gravitation is discussed. Generalized cosmological Friedmann equations for homogeneous isotropic models filled by interacting scalar fields and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Albert V. Minkevich

The covariant canonical transformation theory applied to the relativistic Hamiltonian theory of classical matter fields in dynamical space-time yields a novel (first order) gauge field theory of gravitation. The emerging field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-29 David Vasak , Johannes Kirsch , Dirk Kehm , Juergen Struckmeier