https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2018-12000-8
Regular Article
Nonlinear phenomena in general relativity
1
Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
2
School of Astronomy, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), P. O. Box 19395-5531, Tehran, Iran
* e-mail: j.taghizadeh.f@ipm.ir
Received:
27
December
2017
Accepted:
15
March
2018
Published online:
13
April
2018
The perturbation theory plays an important role in studying structure formation in cosmology and post-Newtonian physics, but not all phenomena can be described by the linear perturbation theory. Thus, it is necessary to study exact solutions or higher-order perturbations. Specifically, we study black hole (apparent) horizons and the cosmological event horizon formation in the perturbation theory. We emphasize that in the perturbative regime of the gravitational potential these horizons cannot form in the lower order. Studying the infinite plane metric, we show that, to capture the cosmological constant effect, we need at least a second-order expansion.
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