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Cosmological Perturbations and Invariant Observables in Geodesic Lightcone Coordinates

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In this paper, the authors consider the construction of gauge-invariant relational observables in gravity in the context of cosmological perturbation theory, and show that the observables are gauge-independent in the fully non-linear theory and have the expected form when one adopts the geodesic lightcone gauge for the metric.
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We consider a recent approach to the construction of gauge-invariant relational observables in gravity in the context of cosmological perturbation theory. These observables are constructed using a field-dependent coordinate system, which we take to be geodesic lightcone coordinates. We show that the observables are gauge-independent in the fully non-linear theory, and that they have the expected form when one adopts the geodesic lightcone gauge for the metric. We give explicit expressions for the Sasaki-Mukhanov variable at linear order, and the Hubble rate -- as measured both by geodesic observers and by observers co-moving with the inflaton -- to second order. Moreover, we show that the well-known linearised equations of motion for the Sasaki-Mukhanov variable and the scalar constraint variables follow from the gauge-invariant Einstein equations.

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