Bimetric structure formation: non-Gaussian predictions
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 appearing in the disformal transformation can run with . For power-law 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.
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