http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4458
We develop a new inversion method to map observed luminosity distance to a LTB metric based on the use of the exact analytical solution for Einstein equations. The main advantages of this approach are an improved numerical accuracy and stability, an exact analytical setting of the initial conditions for the differential equations which need to be solved and the validity for any sign of the functions determining the LTB geometry. Given the fully analytical form of the differential equations, this method also simplifies the calculation of the red-shift expansion around the the apparent horizon point where the numerical solution becomes unstable. We test the method by inverting the supernovae Ia luminosity distance of the best fit $\Lambda CDM$ model.We find that only a limited range of initial conditions is compatible with observations, or a transition from red to blue shift can occur at relatively low redshift. Despite LTB solutions without a cosmological constant have been shown not to be compatible with all different set of available observational data, those studies normally fit data assuming a special functional ansatz for the inhomogeneity profile, which often depend only on few parameters. Inversion methods on the contrary are able to fully explore the freedom in fixing the functions which determine a LTB solution. For this reason this inversion method could be applied to explore more exhaustively the compatibility with observations. Another important possible application is not about LTB solutions as cosmological models, but rather as tools to study the effects of on the observations made by a generic observer located in an inhomogeneous region of the Universe where a fully non perturbative treatment involving exact solutions of Einstein equations is required.
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