Conserved cosmological perturbations

D. Lyth, David Wands

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Abstract

A conserved cosmological perturbation is associated with each quantity whose local evolution is determined entirely by the local expansion of the Universe. It may be defined as the appropriately normalized perturbation of the quantity, defined using a slicing of spacetime such that the expansion between slices is spatially homogeneous. To first order, on superhorizon scales, the slicing with unperturbed intrinsic curvature has this property. A general construction is given for conserved quantities, yielding the curvature perturbation ζ as well as other more recently considered conserved perturbations. The construction may be extended to higher orders in perturbation theory and even into the non-perturbative regime
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)103515
Number of pages1
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume68
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Nov 2003

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