A Synchronous to Newtonian gauge

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In the context of cosmology, you can perturb around the FRW background, conventionally:$$g = a^2(\tau)[(1+2A)d\tau^2 - 2B_a dx^a d\tau -(\delta_{ab} + h_{ab}) dx^a dx^b]$$with ##a,b## being spatial indices only (1,2,3). You can do gauge transformations ##\tilde{x} = x + \xi## of the coordinates. These are typically split into ##\xi^0 \equiv T## and ##\xi^a = \partial^a L + \hat{L}^a##. You find the following first order transformations,\begin{align*}
\tilde{A} &= A - T' - \mathcal{H} T \\
\tilde{B}_a &= B_a + \partial_a T - L_a' \\
\tilde{h}_{ab} &= h_{ab} - 2\partial_{(a} L_{b)} - 2\mathcal{H} T \delta_{ab}
\end{align*}The problem is specifically, is starting from the synchronous gauge, where$$g = a^2(\tau)[d\tau^2 - (\delta_{ab} + h_{ab}) dx^a dx^b]$$with ##h_{ab} = \tfrac{1}{3}\delta_{ab} h + (\hat{k}_a \hat{k}_b - \tfrac{1}{3} \delta_{ab}) h_S## and where ##h, h_S## are functions. And then converting to the Newtonian gauge, where$$\tilde{g} = a^2(\tilde{\tau})[(1+2\Phi)d\tilde{\tau}^2 - (1-2\Psi) \delta_{ab} d\tilde{x}^a d\tilde{x}^b]$$There are supposed to be transformations of the form
$$\tilde{\tau} = \tau + \sum_k T_k(\tau) e^{i\mathbf{k} \cdot \mathbf{x}}, \quad \tilde{\mathbf{x}} = \mathbf{x} + \sum_k L_k (\tau) i\hat{\mathbf{k}} e^{i\mathbf{k} \cdot \mathbf{x}}$$The problem is to find ##T_k## and ##L_k## in terms of ##h_S## and ##h##. I can re-write the second one of these with ##\xi^j = \partial^j \left[ \sum_k L_k \tfrac{1}{k} e^{i\mathbf{k} \cdot \mathbf{x}} \right]##, in other words my two transformation functions are\begin{align*}
T &= \sum_k T_k e^{i\mathbf{k} \cdot \mathbf{x}} \\
L &= \sum_k L_k \frac{1}{k} e^{i\mathbf{k} \cdot \mathbf{x}}
\end{align*}I must be missing something obvious about how to determine the forms of ##T_k## and ##L_k##. For example, in the synchronous gauge then ##A=0## and we get\begin{align*}
\tilde{A} = 0 - T' - \mathcal{H} T = - \sum_{k} \left[ (T_k' + \mathcal{H} T_k) e^{i\mathbf{k} \cdot \mathbf{x}} \right]
\end{align*}where ##\tilde{A} = \Phi##. I'm supposed to find, apparently, that ##T_k = \tfrac{h_S'}{2k^2}## and ##L_k = \tfrac{h_S}{2k}##. Would someone be able to point me in the right direction?
 
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I think I've got it, after a bit of clearing things up. As before, we can find all the gauge transformations via ##\Delta \delta (\mathrm{something}) = - \mathcal{L}_{\xi} (\mathrm{something})##. It's easier for now to just suppress the Fourier subscripts and work with a given mode.
$$\delta h_{0i} = -a^2(i k^i T - i\hat{k}^i \dot{L}) = -a^2(k T - \dot{L}) i \hat{k}^i$$
and also the transformation of the function ##h_S##,
$$\delta h_S = -2a^2 Lk$$
In synchronous gauge you have ##h_{0i} = 0## and ##h_S## non-zero, whilst in Newtonian gauge you have ##h_{0i} = 0## still but also ##h^S = 0## (whilst ##h = -6\Psi##).

So ##\delta h_S = -a^2 h_S = -2a^2 Lk## gives ##L = h_S/2k##, and then ##T = \dot{L}/k = \dot{h}_S/2k^2##.
 
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