Bagheri, Samae: Light in the inhomogeneous Universe: studies on light propagation in the averaged space-time. 2014
Inhalt
- Abstract
- Introduction
- History of the Universe
- The metric
- The geodesic equation
- The Einstein equations
- Friedmann-Lemaître cosmology
- The cosmological principle
- Friedmann equations in a flat Universe
- General RW metric and general Friedmann equations
- Dynamics of the FL Universe
- Evolution of the scale factor
- Inflation
- Time and distance
- Large Scale Structure Formation
- Perturbation from homogeneity
- Structure formation
- Statistic of random fields
- CMB anisotropies
- CMB observations from Planck
- Pre-Planck CMB experiments
- The Planck mission
- CMB maps
- CMB spectra and likelihood
- CMB lensing spectrum
- The cosmological consequences
- Experiments on large scale homogeneity
- Averaging Problem in Cosmology
- Introduction
- The averaging problem
- History of the averaging problem
- Kinematics of scalar averaging
- Dynamics of scalar averaging
- Averaging procedure
- Buchert equations
- Integrability condition
- Cosmological parameters
- Arguments on perturbations
- Mimicking dark energy by backreaction
- Scalar averaging based on mass weighted average method
- Zalaletdinov's macroscopic gravity
- Effects of Inhomogeneity on the Propagation of Light
- Light propagation in an irrotational dust Universe
- The light cone averaging procedure
- Propagation of light in Swiss-Cheese models
- Propagation of light in an averaged space-time
- Propagation of light through an averaged Universe
- Estimation for the effective Hubble rate
- Comparison to other results
- Conclusion and Outlook
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements