Imports
/- Copyright (c) 2026 Jinzheng Li. All rights reserved. Released under Apache 2.0 license as described in the file LICENSE. Authors: Jinzheng Li -/ module public import Physlib.Meta.TODO.Basic

Distances and redshift in FLRW cosmology

Placeholder file collecting TODO items for the notions of distance used in cosmology (comoving, proper, and the observational luminosity and angular-diameter distances), together with the redshift, the horizons, and the lookback time. This file contains only TODO items; no definitions or lemmas are formalized yet.

@[expose] public sectionTODO "Define the line-of-sight comoving distance `χ = c ∫ dt/a`, equivalently `χ(z) = ∫₀ᶻ c dz'/H(z')`."TODO "Define the proper distance `D = a * χ` and prove the Hubble-Lemaître law `∂ₜ D = H * D` at fixed comoving distance `χ`."TODO "Define the Hubble radius `R_H = c / H`, the distance at which the recession velocity equals the speed of light."TODO "Relate the transverse comoving distance `r(χ)` to the existing `Cosmology.SpatialGeometry.S`, with curvature radius `k = 1/√|K|`."TODO "Define the redshift by `1 + z = a₀ / a` and prove the cosmological redshift law `E ∝ 1/a` for a photon from the null geodesic equation."TODO "Define the particle (comoving) horizon `χ_p = c ∫₀ᵗ dt'/a` and the event horizon `χ_e = c ∫_t^∞ dt'/a`."TODO "Define the lookback time `t₀ - t` and prove its model-independent expansion `t₀ - t = H₀⁻¹ [z - ½(2 + q₀) z² + …]` in powers of the redshift."TODO "Define the luminosity distance `d_L = (1 + z) r(χ)` and the angular-diameter distance `d_A = r(χ) / (1 + z)`."TODO "Prove Etherington's distance-duality relation `d_L = (1 + z)² d_A`."TODO "Prove the low-redshift expansions of `χ`, `d_L` and `d_A` in powers of `z` in terms of the deceleration parameter `q₀`."