APPLIED COSMOGRAPHY: A Pedagogical Review

Abstract

Based on the cosmological principle only, the method of describing the evolution of the Universe, called cosmography, is in fact a kinematics of cosmological expansion. The effectiveness of cosmography lies in the fact that it allows, based on the results of observations, to perform a rigid selection of models that do not contradict the cosmological principle. It is important that the introduction of new components (dark matter, dark energy or even more mysterious entities) will not affect the relationship between the kinematic characteristics (cosmographic parameters) This paper shows that within the framework of cosmography the parameters of any model that satisfies the cosmological principle (the universe is homogeneous and isotropic on large scale), can be expressed through cosmographic parameters. The proposed approach to finding the parameters of cosmological models has many advantages. Emphasize that all the obtained results are accurate, since they follow from identical transformations. The procedure can be generalized to the case of models with interaction between components.