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Recently a new approach in constructing the conserved charges in cosmological Einstein's gravity was given. In this new formulation, instead of using the explicit form of the field equations a covariantly conserved rank four tensor was…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-07 Emel Altas

After an introduction to the problem of cosmological structure formation, we develop gauge invariant cosmological perturbation theory. We derive the first order perturbation equations of Einstein's equations and energy momentum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-09 Ruth Durrer

Gauge invariance of scalar perturbations is studied together with the associated equations of motion. Extending methods developed in the framework of hamiltonian General Relativity, the Hamilton-Jacobi equation is investigated into the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-01 Thomas Cailleteau , Aurelien Barrau

We present an approach to cosmological perturbations based on a covariant perturbative expansion between two worldlines in the real inhomogeneous universe. As an application, at an arbitrary order we define an exact scalar quantity which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kari Enqvist , Janne Hogdahl , Sami Nurmi , Filippo Vernizzi

We study a class of almost scale-invariant modified gravity theories, using a particular form of $f(R, G) = \alpha R^2 + \beta G \log G$ where $R$ and $G$ are the Ricci and Gauss-Bonnet scalars, respectively and $\alpha$, $\beta$ are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-04 Jorge L. Fuentes , Usman A. Gillani , Karim A. Malik

In recent years there has been a lot of interest in discussing frame dependences/independences of the cosmological perturbations under the conformal transformations. This problem has previously been investigated in terms of the covariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-14 Yunlong Zheng , Yicen Mou , Haomin Rao , Mingzhe Li

We revisit the gauge issue in cosmological perturbation theory, and highlight its relation to the notion of covariance in general relativity. We also discuss the similarities and differences of the covariant approach in perturbation theory…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 Karim A. Malik , David R. Matravers

We use gauge-invariant cosmological perturbation theory to calculate the displacement field that sets the initial conditions for $N$-body simulations. Using first and second-order fully relativistic perturbation theory in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-02 Adam J. Christopherson , Juan Carlos Hidalgo , Cornelius Rampf , Karim A. Malik

We discuss cosmological perturbation theory at third order, deriving the gauge transformation rules for metric and matter perturbations, and constructing third order gauge invariant quantities. We present the Einstein tensor components, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Adam J. Christopherson , Karim A. Malik

As in the case of the other gauge field theories, there is so called ``gauge'' also in general relativity. This ``gauge'' is unphysical degree of freedom. There are two kinds of ``gauges'' in general relativity. These are called the first-…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-11-08 Kouji Nakamura

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 consider the evolution of relativistic perturbations in the Einstein-de Sitter cosmological model, including second-order effects. The perturbations are considered in two different settings: the widely used synchronous gauge and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Matarrese , S. Mollerach , M. Bruni

This paper discusses the gauge issue touching the gravitational waves induced at the second order by the scalar modes of cosmological perturbations. These waves are known to depend on the gauge used for their calculation. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-27 Vincent Comeau

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

We investigate the scalar sector of linear cosmological perturbations in quadratic gravity. Working in the Einstein frame, we derive the equations of motion in a gauge-independent manner and express them in terms of three sets of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Adrian Palomares , Ying-li Zhang , Jinsu Kim

We consider instability of the Friedmann world model to the second-order in perturbations. We present the perturbed set of equations up to the second-order in the Friedmann background world model with general spatial curvature and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Noh , J. Hwang

The Gauss-Bonnet invariant connects foundational aspects of geometry with physical phenomena in a variety of ways. Teleparallel gravity offers a novel direction in which to use the Gauss-Bonnet invariant to go beyond standard cosmology. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Shivam Kumar Mishra , Jackson Levi Said , B. Mishra

This article investigates the collisionless Boltzmann equation up to second order in the cosmological perturbations. It describes the gauge dependence of the distribution function and the construction of a gauge invariant distribution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Cyril Pitrou

Except for the presence of gravitational wave source term, the relativistic perturbation equations of a zero-pressure irrotational fluid in a flat Friedmann world model coincide exactly with the Newtonian ones to the second order in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Hwang , H. Noh

Using the existence of a covariant conserved quantity on large perturbation scales in a spatially flat perfect fluid or scalar field universe, we present a general formula for gauge-invariantly defined comoving energy density perturbations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Winfried Zimdahl , Diego Pavon