Published January 1, 2022 | Version v1
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Effect of peculiar velocities of inhomogeneities on the shape of gravitational potential in spatially curved universe

  • 1. Department of Physics, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2. Department of Mathematics and Physics, North Carolina Central University, Durham, USA
  • 3. Astronomical Observatory, Odessa National University, Odessa, Ukraine

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We investigate the effect of peculiar velocities of inhomogeneities and the spatial curvature of the universe on the shape of the gravitating potential. To this end, we consider scalar perturbations of the FLRW metric. The gravitational potential satisfies a Helmholtz-type equation which follows from the system of linearized Einstein equations. We obtain analytical solutions of this equation in the cases of open and closed universes, filled with cold dark matter in presence of the cosmological constant. We demonstrate that, first, peculiar velocities significantly affect the screening length of the gravitational interaction and, second, the form of the gravitational potential depends on the sign of the spatial curvature.

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