Isogrowth Cosmology (and How to Map the Universe)

Abstract

While general relativity ties together the cosmic expansion history and growth history of large scale structure, beyond the standard model these can have independent behaviors. We derive expressions for cosmologies with identical growth histories but different expansion histories, or other deviations. This provides a relation for isogrowth cosmologies, but also highlights in general the need for observations to measure each of the growth, expansion, gravity, and dark matter property histories.