Perturbation of FRW Spacetime in Np Formalism

Abstract

Jacobi polynomials appear to play a very important role in describing all the spin field (s = 0, 1/2, 1, 2) perturbation of the FRW spacetime. The formulation becomes very transparent when done in NP formalism. All the variables are separable, and the spatial eigenfuctions turn out to be Jacobian polynomials in different forms. In particular, the angular ones are expressible as spin weighted spherical harmonics which are just the spherical harmonics formed with Jacobi polynomials. The radial eigenfuctions are also Jacobi polynomials but with unconventional parameters. Various properties of these polynomials are used to describe the scalar, vector and tensor modes of the perturbation. The Green's function of the scalar perturbations and also its Lienard Wiecherte type potentials are derived, and are shown to reduce to the familiar ones in the limit to flat FRW case. Some of the components of the perturbed metric tensor h µν have also been calculated.

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