363 research outputs found
On the Green and Wald formalism
Backreaction in the cosmological context is a longstanding problem that is
especially important in the present era of precise cosmology. The standard
model of a homogeneous background plus density perturbations is most probably
oversimplified and is expected to fail to fully account for the near-future
observations of sub-percent precision. From a theoretical point of view, the
problem of backreaction is very complicated and deserves careful examination.
Recently, Green and Wald claimed in a series of papers to have developed a
formalism to properly describe the influence of density inhomogeneities on
average properties of the Universe, i.e., the backreaction effect. A brief
discussion of this framework is presented, focussing on its drawbacks and on
misconceptions that have arisen during the "backreaction debate".Comment: Contribution to the proceedings of MG1
On the relativistic mass function and averaging in cosmology
The general relativistic description of cosmological structure formation is
an important challenge from both the theoretical and the numerical point of
views. In this paper we present a brief prescription for a general relativistic
treatment of structure formation and a resulting mass function on galaxy
cluster scales in a highly generic scenario. To obtain this we use an exact
scalar averaging scheme together with the relativistic generalization of
Zel'dovich's approximation (RZA) that serves as a closure condition for the
averaged equations.Comment: Contribution to the proceedings of MG1
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