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Cosmological Perturbation Theory in Slow-Roll Spacetimes

Cosmological Perturbation Theory in Slow-Roll Spacetimes

We present a gauge-invariant argument that a nonlocal measure of second-order metric and matter perturbations dominates that of linear fluctuations in its effect on the gravitational field in ``slow-rolling'' spacetimes.