Big bang nucleosynthesis constraints on baryon isocurvature perturbations are
determined. A simple model ignoring the effects of the scale of the
perturbations is first reviewed. This model is then extended to test the claim
that large amplitude perturbations will collapse, forming compact objects and
preventing their baryons from contributing to the observed baryon density. It
is found that baryon isocurvature perturbations are constrained to provide only
a slight increase in the density of baryons in the universe over the standard
homogeneous model. In particular it is found that models which rely on power
laws and the random phase approximation for the power spectrum are incompatible
with big bang nucleosynthesis unless an {\em ad hoc}, small scale cutoff is
included.Comment: 11pages + 8figures, LaTeX (2.09), postscript figures available via
anonymous ftp from oddjob.uchicago.edu:/ftp/ibbn/fig?.ps where ?=1-8 or via
email from [email protected], Fermilab-Pub-94/???-A and UMN-TH-1307/9