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We study the effects of inhomogeneities on the evolution of the Universe, by considering a range of cosmological models with discretized matter content. This is done using exact and fully relativistic methods that exploit the symmetries in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Timothy Clifton , Daniele Gregoris , Kjell Rosquist , Reza Tavakol

A refined version of a recently introduced method for analysing the dynamics of an inhomogeneous irrotational dust universe is presented. A fully non-perturbative numerical computation of the time dependence of volume in this framework…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-01 Harald Skarke

According to the second law of thermodynamics, the arrow of time points to an ever increasing entropy of the Universe. However, exactly how the entropy evolves with time and what drives the growth remain largely unknown. Here, for the first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-09 Xinghai Zhao , Yuexing Li , Qirong Zhu , Derek Fox

A cosmology is considered driven by a stress-energy tensor consisting of a perfect fluid, an inhomogeneous pressure term (which we call a ``tachyonic dust'' for reasons which will become apparent) and a cosmological constant. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Das , A. DeBenedictis

A mildly inhomogeneous universe with a cosmological constant may look like it contains evolving dark energy. We show that could be the case by modelling the inhomogeneities and their effects in three different ways: as clumped matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Yonadav Barry Ginat , Pedro G. Ferreira

We consider the entropy associated with the large-scale structure of the Universe in the linear regime, where the Universe can be described by a perturbed Friedmann-Lema\^itre spacetime. In particular, we compare two different definitions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 Giovanni Marozzi , Jean-Philippe Uzan , Obinna Umeh , Chris Clarkson

An accelerated universe should naturally have a vacuum energy density determined by its dynamical curvature. The cosmological constant is most likely a temporary description of a dynamical variable that has been drastically evolving from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-28 Joan Sola

We quantify the physical memory of the cosmic density field using mutual information between $N$-body snapshots at different redshifts, removing a random baseline to isolate gravitational correlations. The shared mutual information rises…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Biswajit Pandey , Anindita Nandi

The evolution of a class of inhomogeneous spherically symmetric universe models possessing a varying cosmological term and a material fluid, with an adiabatic index either constant or not, is studied.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Luis P. Chimento , Diego Pavon

A higher value of Hubble constant has been obtained from measurements with nearby Type Ia supernovae, than that obtained at much higher redshift. With the peculiar motions of their hosts, we find that the matter content at such low redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-25 Shuang-Nan Zhang , Yin-Zhe Ma

The Fourier transform of cosmological density perturbations can be represented in terms of amplitudes and phases for each Fourier mode. We investigate the phase evolution of these modes using a mixture of analytical and numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Lung-Yih Chiang , Peter Coles

We propose a cosmological model that describes isotropic expansion of inhomogeneous universe. The energy-momentum tensor that creates the spatial inhomogeneity may not affect the uniform expansion scaling factor $a(t)$ in the FLRW-like…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-15 Wei-Jian Geng , H. Lu

We introduce the notion of relative volume entropy for two spacetimes with preferred compact spacelike foliations. This is accomplished by applying the notion of Kullback-Leibler divergence to the volume elements induced on spacelike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-24 Nikolas Akerblom , Gunther Cornelissen

The recently introduced relativistic Lagrangian darkon fluid model (EPJ C (2015) 75:9) is generalized to a self-gravitating, irrotational, pressure-less and stress free geodesic fluid, whose energy-momentum tensor is dust-like with…

General Physics · Physics 2016-04-18 Peter C. Stichel

The inhomogeneous cosmological model with matter in the form self-acting scalar field and perfect fluid is considered. On the basis of exact solutions is considered the evolution of density distribution of a matter in space on a background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Zhuravlev , D. A. Kornilov

We study cosmological perturbations in the context of an interacting dark energy model, in which the cosmological term decays linearly with the Hubble parameter, with concomitant matter production. A previous joint analysis of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 H. A. Borges , S. Carneiro , J. C. Fabris , C. Pigozzo

Astronomical observations strongly suggest that our universe is now accelerating and contains a substantial admixture of dark vacuum energy. Using numerical simulations to study this newly consolidated cosmological model (with a constant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fred C. Adams , Michael T. Busha , August E. Evrard , Risa H. Wechsler

Recently there have been claims on model-independent evidence of dynamical dark energy. Herein we consider a fairly general class of cosmological models with a time-evolving cosmological term of the form $\Lambda(H)=C_0+C_H H^2+C_{\dot{H}}…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-08 Joan Sola , Adria Gomez-Valent , Javier de Cruz Perez

Within the context of a cosmic space whose energy source is modeled with a perfect fluid, a uniform model of Universe based on a standard FRW cosmology containing decoupled mixed matter sources namely stiff matter and cosmic dust together…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-07 Denisa-Andreea Mihu

Formalising the confrontation of opinions (models) to observations (data) is the task of Inferential Statistics. Information Theory provides us with a basic functional, the relative entropy (or Kullback-Leibler divergence), an asymmetrical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 François Bavaud