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Growth Histories in Bimetric Massive Gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-05 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We perform cosmological perturbation theory in Hassan-Rosen bimetric gravity for general homogeneous and isotropic backgrounds. In the de Sitter approximation, we obtain decoupled sets of massless and massive scalar gravitational fluctuations. Matter perturbations then evolve like in Einstein gravity. We perturb the future de Sitter regime by the ratio of matter to dark energy, producing quasi-de Sitter space. In this more general setting the massive and massless fluctuations mix. We argue that in the quasi-de Sitter regime, the growth of structure in bimetric gravity differs from that of Einstein gravity.

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@article{arxiv.1206.3496,
  title  = {Growth Histories in Bimetric Massive Gravity},
  author = {Marcus Berg and Igor Buchberger and Jonas Enander and Edvard Mortsell and Stefan Sjors},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.3496},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

28 pages + appendix, 11 figures

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