Density growth in Kantowski-Sachs cosmologies with cosmological constant

• In this work the growth of density perturbations in Kantowski-Sachs cosmologies with a positive cosmological constant is studied, using the 1+3 and 1+1+2 covariant formalisms. For each wave number we obtain a closed system for scalars formed from quantities that are zero on the background and hence are gauge-invariant. The solutions to this system are then analyzed both analytically andnumerically. In particular the effects of anisotropy and the behaviour close to a bounce in the cosmic scale factor are considered.We find that typically the density gradient in the bouncing direction experiences a local maximum at or slightly after the bounce.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences (hsv//eng)

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fysik

Physics

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