Perturbations in generalized Galileon theories
Aug 14, 2017
8 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 96 (2017) 12, 125012
- Published: Dec 26, 2017
e-Print:
- 1708.04262 [hep-th]
Report number:
- INR-TH-2017-018
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Abstract: (APS)
We discuss the approaches by Deffayet et al. (DPSV) and Kobayashi et al. (KYY) to the analysis of linearized scalar perturbations about a spatially flat FLRW background in Horndeski theory. We identify additional, potentially important terms in the DPSV approach. However these terms vanish upon a judicious gauge choice. We derive a gauge invariant quadratic action for metric and Galileon perturbations in L3 and L3+L4 theories and show that actions obtained in the DPSV and KYY approaches follow from this gauge invariant action in particular gauges.Note:
- This is a journal version of the article. The proof of the statement made in Section 3 has been considerably revised. The paper consists of 13 pages
- invariance: gauge
- perturbation: scalar
- Galileon
- background
- cosmological model
- Robertson-Walker
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