Cosmological equivalence principle and the weak-field limit

@article{Wiltshire2008CosmologicalEP,
  title={Cosmological equivalence principle and the weak-field limit},
  author={David L. Wiltshire},
  journal={Physical Review D},
  year={2008},
  volume={78},
  pages={084032}
}
The strong equivalence principle is extended in application to averaged dynamical fields in cosmology to include the role of the average density in the determination of inertial frames. The resulting cosmological equivalence principle is applied to the problem of synchronization of clocks in the observed universe. Once density perturbations grow to give density contrasts of order 1 on scales of tens of megaparsecs, the integrated deceleration of the local background regions of voids relative to… Expand
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