Testing General Relativity with Cosmological Large Scale Structure

Abstract

In this paper I investigate the possibility to test Einstein's equations with observations of cosmological large scale structure. I first show that we have not tested the equations in observations concerning only the homogeneous and isotropic Universe. I then show with several examples how we can do better when considering the fluctuations of both, the energy momentum tensor and the metric. This is illustrated with galaxy number counts, intensity mapping and cosmic shear, three examples that are by no means exhaustive.

arXiv commentThis is an article in honour of Tanu Padmanabhan. It will be published in a Memorial volume of GRG for Paddy

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