Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2008/04/026
Keywords
dark energy theory; superclusters and voids
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We evaluate the average expansion rate of a universe which contains a realistic evolving ensemble of non-linear structures. We use the peak model of structure formation to obtain the number density of structures, and take the individual structures to be spherical. The expansion rate increases relative to the Friedmann - Robertson - Walker value on a timescale of 10 - 100 billion years, because the universe becomes dominated by fast expanding voids. However, the increase is not rapid enough to correspond to acceleration. We discuss how to improve our treatment. We also consider various qualitative issues related to backreaction.
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