Regional averaging and scaling in relativistic cosmology

Details Regional averaging and scaling in relativistic cosmology Regional averaging and scaling in relativistic cosmology

2002-10-11

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0210037v2

Class.Quant.Grav.19:6109-6145,2002

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

LateX, IOPstyle, 48 pages, 11 figures; matches published version in C.Q.G

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/19/23/314

Averaged inhomogeneous cosmologies lie at the forefront of interest, since cosmological parameters like the rate of expansion or the mass density are to be considered as volume-averaged quantities and only these can be compared with observations. For this reason the relevant parameters are intrinsically scale-dependent and one wishes to control this dependence without restricting the cosmological model by unphysical assumptions. In the latter respect we contrast our way to approach the averaging problem in relativistic cosmology with shortcomings of averaged Newtonian models. Explicitly, we investigate the scale-dependence of Eulerian volume averages of scalar functions on Riemannian three-manifolds. We propose a complementary view of a Lagrangian smoothing of (tensorial) variables as opposed to their Eulerian averaging on spatial domains. This program is realized with the help of a global Ricci deformation flow for the metric. We explain rigorously the origin of the Ricci flow which, on heuristic grounds, has already been suggested as a possible candidate for smoothing the initial data set for cosmological spacetimes. The smoothing of geometry implies a renormalization of averaged spatial variables. We discuss the results in terms of effective cosmological parameters that would be assigned to the smoothed cosmological spacetime.

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