Backreaction of inhomogeneities on the expansion: the evolution of cosmological parameters

Details Backreaction of inhomogeneities on the expansion: the evolution of cosmological parameters Backreaction of inhomogeneities on the expansion: the evolution of cosmological parameters

1999-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912347v2

Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 043525

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

revtex, 22 pages, 1 table, 13 figures, featuring an extended summary and discussion, matches version accepted for publication

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.62.043525

Averaging and evolving inhomogeneities are non-commuting operations. This implies the existence of deviations of an averaged model from the standard Friedmann-Lemaitre cosmologies. We quantify these deviations, encoded in a backreaction parameter, in the framework of Newtonian cosmology. We employ the linear theory of gravitational instability in the Eulerian and Lagrangian approaches, as well as the spherically- and plane-symmetric solutions as standards of reference. We propose a model for the evolution of the average characteristics of a spatial domain for generic initial conditions that contains the spherical top-hat model and the planar collapse model as exact sub cases. A central result is that the backreaction term itself, calculated on sufficiently large domains, is small but, still, its presence can drive the cosmological parameters on the averaging domain far away from their global values of the standard model. We quantify the variations of these parameters in terms of the fluctuations in the initial data as derived from the power spectrum of initial cold dark matter density fluctuations. E.g. in a domain with a radius of 100Mpc today and initially one-sigma fluctuations, the density parameters deviate from their homogeneous values by 15%; three-sigma fluctuations lead to deviations larger than 100%.

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