Temperature fluctuations in an inhomogeneous diffusive fluid
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-02-27 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
We discuss metric perturbations of the relativistic diffusion equation around the homogeneous Juttner equilibrium of massless particles in a homogeneous expanding universe. The metric perturbation describes matter distribution and the gravitational wave background in an inhomogeneous universe. We show that the lowest order perturbation can be treated as a variation of temperature. We derive a formula expressing temperature fluctuations in terms of the diffusion and tensor power spectrum. We discuss the multipole expansion of the fluctuations in the presence of diffusion.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1408.7116,
title = {Temperature fluctuations in an inhomogeneous diffusive fluid},
author = {Z. Haba},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.7116},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
14 pages,minor corrections