Braneworld Cosmological Perturbations in Teleparallel Gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-10-20 v2
Abstract
We describe the fully gauge invariant cosmological perturbation equations in braneworld teleparallel gravity. In this theory, perturbations are the result of small fluctuations in the pentad field. We derive the gauge invariant 'potentials' for both geometric and matter variables. Unlike the metric fluctuations in general relativity, pentad perturbations can only contain scalar and vector modes. As a result, in teleparallel gravity, tensor modes including gravitational waves, come from the contortion tensor.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1505.06572,
title = {Braneworld Cosmological Perturbations in Teleparallel Gravity},
author = {A. Behboodi and S. Akhshabi and K. Nozari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.06572},
year = {2015}
}