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Séminaire / Seminar GReCO

« Conservation and evolution of nonlinear cosmological perturbations »

Filippo Vernizzi
Helsinki Inst. Physics, Univ. Helsinki (Helsinki, Finlande)

I will present a formalism to study the conservation and evolution of nonlinear perturbations in cosmology, based on a covariant and fully non-perturbative approach. I will show how this formalism unifies different approaches derived in linear perturbation theory and extends them to higher order in the perturbations. The formalism allows to define non-perturbative quantities which are conserved at all scales, and when applied to scalar fields, can be employed to study the generation of non-Gaussianities during inflation.
jeudi 16 mars 2006 - 11:00
Salle des séminaires Évry Schatzman
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
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