Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1997-12-10
Phys.Rev. D57 (1998) 7177-7185
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
16 pages, no figure, submitted to PRD
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.57.7177
The relation between the long wavelength limit of solutions to the cosmological perturbation equations and the perturbations of solutions to the exactly homogeneous background equations is investigated for scalar perturbations on spatially flat cosmological models. It is shown that a homogeneous perturbation coincides with the long wavelength limit of some inhomogeneous perturbation only when the former satisfies an additional condition corresponding to the momentum constraint if the matter consists only of scalar fields. In contrast, no such constraint appears if the fundamental variables describing the matter contain a vector field as in the case of a fluid. Further, as a byproduct of this general analysis, it is shown that there exist two universal exact solutions to the perturbation equations in the long wavelength limit, which are expressed only in terms of the background quantities. They represent adiabatic growing and decaying modes, and correspond to the well-known exact solutions for perfect fluid systems and scalar field systems.
Hamazaki Takashi
Kodama Hideo
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