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对平均宇宙的观测限制

Observational Constraints on the Averaged Universe

Chris Clarkson, Timothy Clifton, Alan Coley, Rockhee Sung

摘要:

在广义相对论中求平均是一个复杂的操作,这是由于理论的广义协变性和爱因斯坦方程的非线性。后者确保了在宇宙学尺度上平滑时空不会产生与求解具有平滑物质分布的爱因斯坦方程相同的结果,并且我们拟合观测的平滑模型不需要简单地与时空的实际几何相关。一个具体的后果,这是一个解耦的几何空间曲率项的度量从动态空间曲率的弗里德曼方程。在这里,我们调查的后果,这种脱钩拟合HST,CMB,SNIa和BAO数据集的组合。我们发现,只有几何空间曲率是严格约束,我们的能力,以约束暗能量动力学将受到严重损害,直到我们获得一个透彻的理解宇宙学中的平均问题。

英文摘要:

Averaging in general relativity is a complicated operation, due to the general covariance of the theory and the non-linearity of Einstein's equations. The latter of these ensures that smoothing spacetime over cosmological scales does not yield the same result as solving Einstein's equations with a smooth matter distribution, and that the smooth models we fit to observations need not be simply related to the actual geometry of spacetime. One specific consequence of this is a decoupling of the geometrical spatial curvature term in the metric from the dynamical spatial curvature in the Friedmann equation. Here we investigate the consequences of this decoupling by fitting to a combination of HST, CMB, SNIa and BAO data sets. We find that only the geometrical spatial curvature is tightly constrained, and that our ability to constrain dark energy dynamics will be severely impaired until we gain a thorough understanding of the averaging problem in cosmology.

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