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A linear relation between galaxy-lensing cross-correlations to test the cosmological principle model-independently

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arxiv 2106.03298 v1 pith:QUPFYIGI submitted 2021-06-07 astro-ph.CO gr-qc

A linear relation between galaxy-lensing cross-correlations to test the cosmological principle model-independently

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keywords cosmologicallinearrelationprincipletestcross-correlationsflrwgalaxy-lensing
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We discover a linear relation between two sets of galaxy-lensing cross-correlations. This linear relation holds, as long as light follows the geodesic and the metric is Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW). Violation of the cosmological principle (and equivalently the FLRW metric) will break this linear relation. Therefore it provides a powerful test of the cosmological principle, based on direct observables and relied on no specific cosmological models. We demonstrate that stage IV galaxy surveys and CMB-S4 experiments will be able to test this linear relation stringently and therefore test the cosmological principle robustly.

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