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The second order perturbation calculations for gravity wave and Einstein equation for space time and matter are presented for the FRW metric cosmological model. While exact equations are found, suitable approximations are made to obtain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-01-03 Ajay Patwardhan , Kartik Prabhu , M. S. R. Kumar

We give a concise, self-contained introduction to perturbation theory in cosmology at linear and second order, striking a balance between mathematical rigour and usability. In particular we discuss gauge issues and the active and passive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Karim A. Malik , David R. Matravers

It is known that de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley (dRGT) massive gravity does not permit a homogeneous and isotropic universe with flat or spherical spatial metrics. We demonstrate that a singular reference metric solves this problem in an economic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-29 Hongsheng Zhang , Ya-Peng Hu , Yi Zhang

Five-vectors theory of gravity is proposed, which admits an arbitrary choice of the energy density reference level. This theory is formulated as the constraint theory, where the Lagrange multipliers turn out to be restricted to some class…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-02 S. L. Cherkas , V. L. Kalashnikov

We consider the application of the consistent lattice quantum gravity approach we introduced recently to the situation of a Friedmann cosmology and also to Bianchi cosmological models. This allows us to work out in detail the computations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Rodolfo Gambini , Jorge Pullin

A new class of modified gravity theories with a healthy higher order derivative terms of a function of the matter Lagrangian $f(L_m)$ is considered. Generally the energy momentum tensor is not conserved, leading to the fifth force similar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-19 Zahra Haghani , Shahab Shahidi

We develop a Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (LPT) framework to study the clustering of cold dark matter (CDM) in cosmologies with massive neutrinos. We follow the trajectories of CDM particles with Lagrangian displacements fields up to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Alejandro Aviles , Arka Banerjee

Gauge-invariant treatments of general-relativistic higher-order perturbations on generic background spacetime is proposed. After reviewing the general framework of the second-order gauge-invariant perturbation theory, we show the fact that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-24 Kouji Nakamura

We study the cosmological effects of adding terms of higher-order in the usual energy-momentum tensor to the matter lagrangian of general relativity. This is in contrast to most studies of higher-order gravity which focus on generalising…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-16 Charles V. R. Board , John D. Barrow

In a class of generalized gravity theories with general couplings between the scalar field and the scalar curvature in the Lagrangian, we can describe the quantum generation and the classical evolution of both the scalar and tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 J. Hwang

When recent observational evidence and the GR+FRW+CDM model are combined we obtain the result that the Universe is accelerating, where the acceleration is due to some not-yet-understood "dark sector". There has been a considerable number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-17 Jonathan A. Pearson

Loop quantum gravity is a mature theory. To proceed to explicit calculations in cosmology, it is necessary to make assumptions and simplifications based on the symmetries of the cosmological setting. Symmetry reduction is especially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-03 Aurélien Barrau , Boris Bolliet

In this paper, we consider the spatial gauge symmetries spontaneously break down in GR, and graviton becomes massive on this spatial condensate background. Such model can be considered as a simplest example of massive gravity. We then apply…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-30 Chunshan Lin

Introduced herein are the foundations of Global Time Theory (GTT) that further develop the General Relativity (GR). GTT is significantly different from GR in the general physical concepts, but retains 90% of the mathematical structure and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. E. Burlankov

We study the evolution of linear cosmological perturbations in f(R) models of accelerated expansion in the physical frame where the gravitational dynamics are fourth order and the matter is minimally coupled. These models predict a rich and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yong-Seon Song , Wayne Hu , Ignacy Sawicki

We derive the governing equations for multiple scalar fields minimally coupled to gravity in a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) background spacetime on large scales. We include scalar perturbations up to second order and write the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Karim A. Malik

In this first paper we present a Lagrangian framework for the description of structure formation in general relativity, restricting attention to irrotational dust matter. As an application we present a self-contained derivation of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-24 Thomas Buchert , Matthias Ostermann

We consider f(R,T) modified theory of gravity, in which the gravitational Lagrangian is given by an arbitrary function of the Ricci scalar and the trace of the energy-momentum tensor of the matter, in order to investigate the dark-matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-02 Raziyeh Zaregonbadi , Mehrdad Farhoudi , Nematollah Riazi

We review the study of inhomogeneous perturbations about a homogeneous and isotropic background cosmology. We adopt a coordinate based approach, but give geometrical interpretations of metric perturbations in terms of the expansion, shear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-23 Karim A. Malik , David Wands

We study the nonlinear gravitational dynamics of a universe filled with a pressureless fluid and a cosmological constant $\Lambda$ in the context of Newtonian gravity, and in the relativistic post-Friedmann approach proposed in paper I [I.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-26 Cornelius Rampf , Eleonora Villa , Daniele Bertacca , Marco Bruni