We continue to study the 2nd-order cosmological perturbations in synchronous coordinates in the framework of the general relativity (GR) during the radiation dominated (RD) stage, and to focus on the scalar-tensor and tensor-tensor couplings. The 1st-order curl velocity and the associated 1st-order vector metric perturbations are assumed to be vanishing. By analytically solving the 2nd-order Einstein equation and the energy-momentum conservation equations, we obtain the 2nd-order formal solutions (in the integral form) of all the metric perturbations, density contrast and velocity; perform the transformation between the synchronous coordinates; and identify the residual gauge modes in the 2nd-order solutions. In addition, we present the 2nd-order gauge transformations of the solutions from synchronous to Poisson coordinates. To apply these formal solutions to concrete cosmological study, one needs to choose proper initial conditions and do several numerical integrals. * √ 3 , so that they are waves propagating at the sound speed 1 √ 3 of the relativistic fluid. On the other hand, the tensor modes (2.28) are waves propagating at the speed of light. In the MD stage [60-62], the scalar, and density contrast are not waves and do not propagate; only the tensor modes still propagate at the speed of light. Therefore,whether or not the scalar modes propagate actually depends on the background matter; nevertheless, the tensor modes always propagate at speed of light, regardless of the background matter. Thus, the tensor modes are radiative as dynamic degrees of freedom, differing from the scalar and vector modes.3 The 2nd-order perturbed equations
Equations with scalar-tensor couplingsThe 2nd-order perturbed Einstein equations are listed in Appendix A for a general RW spacetime. As said earlier in (2.19), the transverse vector mode and the curl