DYNAMICS OF GRAVITATIONAL-INSTABILITY IS NONLOCAL

Citation
L. Kofman et D. Pogosyan, DYNAMICS OF GRAVITATIONAL-INSTABILITY IS NONLOCAL, The Astrophysical journal, 442(1), 1995, pp. 30-38
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
ISSN journal
0004637X
Volume
442
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Part
1
Pages
30 - 38
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-637X(1995)442:1<30:DOGIN>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
Few recent generations of cosmologists have solved nonlocal Newtonian basic equations which describe the gravitational instability in an exp anding universe. The general picture emerging from this approach is th at the structure begins to form with the pancaking and then looks like a complicated hierarchical clustering and pancaking over a vast range of scales. In general relativity (GR) the equations of cosmological g ravitational instability contain the electric part of the Weyl tenser represented by the local terms, and the magnetic part, represented by both local and nonlocal terms. If the magnetic part is ignored, then t he Newtonian limit of the GR version of the basic equations without th e magnetic part consists of the closed set of the local Lagrangian equ ations. Recently, this fact has drawn much attention, since the gravit ational instability in that form would greatly simplify the study of c osmic structure formation. In particular, the filamentary structure of collapsing is predicted. In this paper we resolve the contradiction b etween the Newtonian theory and GR versions adopted in some recent pap ers. We show that dropping the magnetic part from the basic relativist ic equations is incorrect. The correct Newtonian limit is derived by t he lie-expansion of the GR equations and the Bianchi identities for th e Weyl tenser. The last ones begin with similar to 1/c(3) order, there fore in this case one must take into account the magnetic part in the first nonvanishing post Newtonian order similar to 1/c(3), which conta ins nonlocal terms, unrelated to the gravitational waves, but directly related to the nonlocal gravitational interaction. For the first time we rigorously show that the basic GR equations with the magnetic part are reduced precisely to the canonic Newtonian nonlocal equations. Th us, the correct treatment of the relativistic version of the gravitati onal instability resurrects the canonic picture of the structure forma tion, where pancaking is the predominant form of collapsing in the sin gle stream regime.