Painless causality in defect calculations

Details Painless causality in defect calculations Painless causality in defect calculations

1997-02-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9702041v1

Phys.Rev. D56 (1997) 1982-1988

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.56.1982

Topological defects must respect causality, a statement leading to restrictive constraints on the power spectrum of the total cosmological perturbations they induce. Causality constraints have for long been known to require the presence of an under-density in the surrounding matter compensating the defect network on large scales. This so-called compensation can never be neglected and significantly complicates calculations in defect scenarios, eg. computing cosmic microwave background fluctuations. A quick and dirty way to implement the compensation are the so-called compensation fudge factors. Here we derive the complete photon-baryon-CDM backreaction effects in defect scenarios. The fudge factor comes out as an algebraic identity and so we drop the negative qualifier ``fudge''. The compensation scale is computed and physically interpreted. Secondary backreaction effects exist, and neglecting them constitutes the well-defined approximation scheme within which one should consider compensation factor calculations. We quantitatively assess the accuracy of this approximation, and conclude that the considerable pains associated with improving on it are often a waste of effort.

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