One Gravitational Potential or Two? Forecasts and Tests
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Bertschinger, Edmund
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December 2011
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Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
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Royal Society, The
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Bertschinger, E. “One gravitational potential or two? Forecasts and tests.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 369.1957 (2011): 4947-4961.
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Abstract
The metric of a perturbed Robertson–Walker space–time is characterized by three functions: a scale-factor giving the expansion history and two potentials that generalize the single potential of Newtonian gravity. The Newtonian potential induces peculiar velocities and, from these, the growth of matter fluctuations. Massless particles respond equally to the Newtonian potential and to a curvature potential. The difference of the two potentials, called the gravitational slip, is predicted to be very small in general relativity, but can be substantial in modified gravity theories. The two potentials can be measured, and gravity tested on cosmological scales, by combining weak gravitational lensing or the integrated Sachs–Wolfe effect with galaxy peculiar velocities or clustering.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2011.0369
