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Post-Newtonian Cosmology

Tamath Rainsford, Peter Szekeres

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9903056

Abstract

Newtonian Cosmology is commonly used in astrophysical problems, because of its obvious simplicity when compared with general relativity. However it has inherent difficulties, the most obvious of which is the non-existence of a well-posed initial value problem. In this paper we investigate how far these problems are met by using the post-Newtonian approximation in cosmology.

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