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Curvature perturbations of quasidilaton non-linear massive gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2013-07-12 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the cosmological perturbations of the recently proposed extension of non-linear massive gravity with a scalar field. The added scalar field ensures a new symmetry on the field space of the theory. The theory has the property of having a flat dS solution, in contrast to the standard dRGT massive gravity. The tensor part is the same as that of the standard dRGT and shows gravitational waves with a time dependent mass which modifies the dispersion relation. We obtain the curvature perturbation of the model on superhorizon scales for a specific choice of ω=0\omega=0 and find that the theory does not allow a constant curvature perturbation on the superhorizon scales and we have always a growing mode. The consistency of equations restricts the parameter space of the theory.

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@article{arxiv.1303.2843,
  title  = {Curvature perturbations of quasidilaton non-linear massive gravity},
  author = {Zahra Haghani and Hamid Reza Sepangi and Shahab Shahidi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.2843},
  year   = {2013}
}

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