The Effects of Shear and Rotation Anisotropy Upon the Process of Gravitational Instability

In this paper, we study the role of shear fields on the evolution of density perturbations embedded in a Friedmann flat background universe, by studying the evolution of a homogeneous ellipsoid model.In this context, we show that while the effect of the shear is that of increasing the growth rate of the density contrast of a mass element (in agreement with Hoffman 1986a), the angular momentum acquired by the ellipsoid has the right magnitude to counterbalance the shear.Finally, our result shows that initial asphericities and tidal interaction induce a slowing down of the collapse after the system has broken away from the general expansion, in perfect agreement with the previrialization conjecture (Peebles & Groth 1976, Davis & Peebles 1977).

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