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The present paper outlines theoretical principles of the post-Newtonian mechanics in the expanding universe. It is based upon the gauge-invariant theory of the Lagrangian perturbations of cosmological manifold caused by an isolated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-27 Sergei Kopeikin , Alexander Petrov

Numerical simulations are a versatile tool providing insight into the complicated process of structure formation in cosmology. This process is mainly governed by gravity, which is the dominant force on large scales. To date, a century after…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-04 Julian Adamek , David Daverio , Ruth Durrer , Martin Kunz

General relativistic cosmology cannot be reduced to linear relativistic perturbations superposed on an isotropic and homogeneous (Friedmann-Robertson-Walker) background, even though such a simple scheme has been successfully applied to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Eleonora Villa , Licia Verde , Sabino Matarrese

Future observations of the large-scale structure have the potential to investigate cosmological models with a high degree of complexity, including the properties of gravity on large scales, the presence of a complicated dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-26 Robert Reischke , Alessio Spurio Mancini , Björn Malte Schäfer , Philipp M. Merkel

Both for the background world model and its linear perturbations Newtonian cosmology coincides with the zero-pressure limits of relativistic cosmology. However, such successes in Newtonian cosmology are not purely based on Newton's gravity,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jai-chan Hwang , Hyerim Noh

We present a new analytic approach to describe large scale structure formation in the mildly non-linear regime. The central object of the method is the time-dependent probability distribution function generating correlators of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-09 Diego Blas , Mathias Garny , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Sergey Sibiryakov

These lecture notes introduce analytical tools, methods and results describing the growth of cosmological structure beyond the linear regime. The presentation is focused on the single flow regime of the Vlasov-Poisson equation describing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-03 Francis Bernardeau

The relationship between the metric and nonrelativistic matter distribution depends on the theory of gravity and additional fields, providing a possible way of distinguishing competing theories. With the assumption that the geometry and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-28 Mustafa A. Amin , Robert V. Wagoner , Roger D. Blandford

The simplest flavor of the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structure is based on Newtonian equations and describes the nonlinear matter density and velocity using Einstein-de-Sitter kernels. Even in the presence of massive neutrinos,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Christian Fidler , Julien Lesgourgues , Antonia Mattes , Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Simon Neuland

We develop the formalism to investigate the relation between the evolution of the large-scale (quasi) linear structure and that of the small-scale nonlinear structure in Newtonian cosmology within the Lagrangian framework. In doing so, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Masahiro Takada , Toshifumi Futamase

It is shown that a first-order relativistic perturbation theory for the open, flat or closed Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker universe admits one, and only one, gauge-invariant quantity which describes the perturbation to the energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-25 P. G. Miedema

The general relativistic non--linear dynamics of a self--gravitating collisionless fluid with vanishing vorticity is studied in synchronous and comoving -- i.e. {\em Lagrangian} -- coordinates. Writing the equations in terms of the metric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sabino Matarrese

We analyse cosmological perturbations around a homogeneous and isotropic background for scalar-tensor, vector-tensor and bimetric theories of gravity. Building on previous results, we propose a unified view of the effective parameters of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-28 Macarena Lagos , Emilio Bellini , Johannes Noller , Pedro G. Ferreira , Tessa Baker

Scale-dependent gravity is an extension of general relativity in which the Newton and cosmological constants may vary slightly with the energy scale due to remnant low-energy quantum effects. A fundamental feature of this approach is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-03 Nicolas R. Bertini , Marcos H. Novaes

In scalar-vector-tensor (SVT) theories with parity invariance, we perform a gauge-ready formulation of cosmological perturbations on the flat Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) background by taking into account a matter perfect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-12 Lavinia Heisenberg , Ryotaro Kase , Shinji Tsujikawa

We extend the systematic calculation of an approximately relativistic Hamiltonian for centre of mass and internal dynamics of an electromagnetically bound two-particle system by Sonnleitner and Barnett [1] to the case including a weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Philip K. Schwartz , Domenico Giulini

Solar-System constraints on a general scalar-tensor theory with generic non-minimal coupling function, non-canonical kinetic function, and scalar potential, are investigated in both the metric and Palatini formalisms. A unified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Alexandros Karam , Samuel Sánchez López , José Jaime Terente Díaz

In this work a study of the gravity is made using Einstein's equation in the post-Newtonian approach. This is a method to linearise the General Relativity indicated to treat non-relativistic objects. It enables us to construct, from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-29 I. C. Jardim , R. R. Landim

We propose a general class of scalar-teleparallel theories, which are based on a scalar field which is coupled to a flat connection with torsion and nonmetricity, and study its post-Newtonian limit using the parametrized post-Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-11 Manuel Hohmann , Ulbossyn Ualikhanova

One way to account for the acceleration of the universe is to modify general relativity, rather than introducing dark energy. Typically, such modifications introduce new degrees of freedom. It is interesting to consider models with no new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Sean M. Carroll , Ignacy Sawicki , Alessandra Silvestri , Mark Trodden