EVOLUTION OF ISOCURVATURE PERTURBATIONS I: PHOTON-BARYON UNIVERSE

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The isocurvature perturbation in the photon-baryon universe is comprehensively studied by analytic methods in the framework of the gauge-invariant perturbation theory. In particular the evolutionary behavior of the isocurvature perturbation and its influence on the anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background are examined in detail. The results are compared with those for the adiabatic perturbation and some peculiar features of the isocurvature perturbation are pointed out and their origin is clarified. Besides these studies the ambiguities associated with the definition of non-adiabatic perturbations, especially the so-called isothermal perturbation are critically discussed and a clear definition of isocurvature perturbation is given.

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