Backreaction and the Covariant Formalism of General Relativity
arXiv:1202.0430
Abstract
This thesis is a review of backreaction, which is a possible alternative to dark energy and modified gravity. We describe in detail the 3+1 covariant formalism and Frobenius' theorem. We present the averaging procedure developed by Buchert, the Buchert equations and the generalization of these equations to the case of general matter. We then generalize to arbitrary number of spatial dimensions. We focus on the case of 2+1 dimensions, where the relation between the topology and the geometry of a surface imposes a global constraint on backreaction.
arXiv comment96 pages, 3 figures, master thesis; supervisors: S.Räsänen and M.Carfora
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