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Anisotropic Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe from nonlinear massive gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-10-17 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In the scope of the nonlinear massive gravity, we study fixed points of evolution equations for a Bianchi type--I universe. We find a new attractor solution with non-vanishing anisotropy, on which the physical metric is isotropic but the Stuckelberg configuration is anisotropic. As a result, at the background level, the solution describes a homogeneous and isotropic universe, while a statistical anisotropy is expected from perturbations, suppressed by smallness of the graviton mass.

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@article{arxiv.1206.2723,
  title  = {Anisotropic Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe from nonlinear massive gravity},
  author = {A. Emir Gumrukcuoglu and Chunshan Lin and Shinji Mukohyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.2723},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure, REVTeX4; V2 with minor revison, and to appear on PLB

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