Gravitational waves induced by massless vector fields with non-minimal coupling to gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2016-11-29 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
In this paper, we calculate the contribution of the late time mode of a massless vector field to the power spectrum of the primordial gravitational wave using retarded Green's propagator. We consider a non-trivial coupling between gravity and the vector field. We find that the correction is scale-invariant and of order . The non-minimal coupling leads to a dependence of , which can amplify the correlation function up to the level of .
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@article{arxiv.1611.09032,
title = {Gravitational waves induced by massless vector fields with non-minimal coupling to gravity},
author = {Kaixi Feng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.09032},
year = {2016}
}
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13 pages