Cosmographic analysis of redshift drift
  Redshift drift is the phenomenon whereby the observed redshift between an
emitter and observer comoving with the Hubble flow in an expanding FLRW
universe will slowly evolve --- on a timescale comparable to the Hubble time.
There are nevertheless serious astrometric proposals for actually observing
this effect. We shall however pursue a more abstract theoretical goal, and
perform a general cosmographic analysis of this effect, eschewing (for now)
dynamical considerations in favour of purely kinematic symmetry considerations
based on FLRW spacetimes. We shall develop various exact results and series
expansions for the redshift drift in terms of the present day Hubble,
deceleration, jerk, snap, crackle, and pop parameters, as well as the present
day redshift of the source. In particular, potential observation of this
redshift drift effect is intimately related to the universe exhibiting a
nonzero deceleration parameter.
