<p>This thesis presents a brief review of gravitation and cosmology, and then gives an overview of the theory of cosmological perturbations; subsequently some applications are discussed, such as large-scale structure formation. Cosmological perturbations are here presented both in the Newtonian paradigm and in two di¤erent relativistic approaches. The relativistic approaches are (i) the metric approach, where small variations of the metric tensor are considered, and (ii) the covariant approach, which focusses on small variations of the curvature. Dealing with these two approaches also involves addressing the gauge problem how to map an idealized world model into a more accurate world model.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:kau-925 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Hultgren, Kristoffer |
| Publisher | Karlstad University, Faculty of Technology and Science |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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