Recently, we studied perturbations in the Lemaître-Tolman-Bondi cosmological model by applying the second-order perturbation theory in the dust Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker universe model. Before this work, the same subject was studied in some papers by analyzing linear perturbations in the Lemaître-Tolman-Bondi cosmological model under the assumption proposed by Clarkson, Clifton, and February, in which two perturbation variables are negligible. However, it is a nontrivial issue in what situation the Clarkson-Clifton-February assumption is valid. In this paper, we investigate differences between these two approaches. It is shown that, in general, these two approaches are not compatible with each other. That is, in our perturbative procedure, the Clarkson-Clifton-February assumption is not valid at the order of our interest.

• Received 22 July 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.107301