A note on the (non-)conservation of curvature perturbation [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07568


In this note, we compare two different definitions for the cosmological perturbation $\zeta$ which is conserved on large scales and study their non-conservation on small scales. We derive an equation for the time evolution of the curvature perturbation on a uniform density slice through a calculation solely in longitudinal (conformal-Newtonian) gauge. The result is concise and compatible with that obtained via local conservation of energy-momentum tensor.

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C. Lin
Wed, 17 Aug 22
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