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Covariant cosmological perturbation dynamics in the large-scale limit

Winfried Zimdahl, Diego Pavon

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9804022

Abstract

Using the existence of a covariant conserved quantity on large perturbation scales in a spatially flat perfect fluid or scalar field universe, we present a general formula for gauge-invariantly defined comoving energy density perturbations which encodes the entire linear perturbation dynamics in a closed time integral. On this basis we discuss perturbation modes in different cosmological epochs.

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