Conditions for low-redshift positive apparent acceleration in smooth inhomogeneous models

Abstract

It is known that a smooth LTB model cannot have a positive apparent central acceleration. Using a local Taylor expansion method we study the low-redshift conditions to obtain an apparent negative deceleration parameter $q^{app}(z)$ derived from the luminosity distance $D_L(z)$ for a central observer in a LTB space, confirming that central smoothness implies a positive central deceleration. Since observational data is only available at redshift greater than zero we find the critical values of the parameters defining a centrally smooth LTB model which give a positive apparent acceleration at $z>0$, providing a graphical representation of the conditions in the $q_0^{app},q_1^{app}$ plane, which are respectively the zero and first order terms of the central Taylor expansion of $q^{app}(z)$. We finally derive a coordinate independent expression for the apparent deceleration parameter based on the expansion of the relevant functions in red-shift rather than in the radial coordinate. We calculate $q^{app}(z)$ with two different methods to solve the null geodesic equations, one based on a local central expansion of the solution in terms of cosmic time and the other one using the exact analytical solution in terms of generalized conformal time. %The expansion of the solution in terms of cosmic time is quite useful also for other applications requiring foliation %of space-time in space-like hyper-surfaces, such as spatial averaging, which is much more difficult to study using the %analytical solution in terms of the generalized conformal time coordinate.

18 pages, 3 figures, abstract, added section with coordinate independent conditions, version accepted for publication in GRG

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