Cosmological tests of General Relativity with tomographic surveys

Future cosmological surveys, combining galaxy counts and weak lensing measurements, will map the evolution of matter perturbations and gravitational potentials from the matter dominated epoch until today. In addition to tightening the constraints on allowed expansion histories, the combination of these measurements will test the relationships between matter overdensities, local curvature, and the Newtonian potential. These relationships can be modified in alternative theories of gravity and by exotic forms of dark energy. I will present the results by Zhao et al. [1] of an analysis on the potential of upcoming and future tomographic surveys, such as DES and LSST, with the aid of CMB and supernovae data, to detect departures from the growth of perturbations expected within General Relativity with a cosmological constant.