English

Bimetric structure formation: non-Gaussian predictions

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2010-08-27 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The minimal bimetric theory employing a disformal transformation between matter and gravity metrics is known to produce exactly scale-invariant fluctuations. It has a purely equilateral non-Gaussian signal, with an amplitude smaller than that of DBI inflation (with opposite sign) but larger than standard inflation. We consider non-minimal bimetric models, where the coupling BB appearing in the disformal transformation g^\mn=g\mnBμϕνϕ{\hat g}_{\mn}= g_{\mn} -B\partial_\mu\phi\partial_\nu\phi can run with ϕ\phi. For power-law B(ϕ)B(\phi) these models predict tilted spectra. For each value of the spectral index, a distinctive distortion to the equilateral property can be found. The constraint between this distortion and the spectral index can be seen as a "consistency relation" for non-minimal bimetric models.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1006.3216,
  title  = {Bimetric structure formation: non-Gaussian predictions},
  author = {Joao Magueijo and Johannes Noller and Federico Piazza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.3216},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

17 pages, 2 figures. References and minor comments added in revised version

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