Wiegand, Alexander: The inhomogeneous Universe : its average expansion and cosmic variance. 2012
Inhalt
- Abstract
- Introduction
- The theory of structure formation
- Methods for characterizing structure
- Cosmological perturbation theory
- The origin of today's structure
- Structure in the observations
- Backreaction of structure on the expansion of the Universe
- Averaging in an inhomogeneous Universe
- Lagrangian form of the Einstein equations
- Backreaction in the RZA
- The average evolution
- Comparison to other quantitative estimations
- The influence of structure on observations
- Cosmic variance
- Fluctuations in the cosmic parameters
- Matter and curvature fluctuations
- Hubble and geometry fluctuations
- Conclusion and Outlook
- Bibliography
- Window function calculation
- Fourth order backreaction
- List of abbreviations
- List of symbols and list of figures
- Danksagung
- Eigenständigkeitserklärung