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Invariance of cosmological number counts under disformal transformations

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2023-08-01 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We investigate whether true physical observables associated with the measurements of large scale structure in the universe are frame-independent. In particular, we study if cosmological observables such as the galaxy number counts are invariant under the disformal transformations. In a previous work, it was shown that this frame-invariance holds true for the case of conformal transformations. In this work, we find that the invariance also holds true for the case of a simple disformal transformation. We further briefly comment on the disformal invariance of other cosmological observables.

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@article{arxiv.2203.15341,
  title  = {Invariance of cosmological number counts under disformal transformations},
  author = {Basundhara Ghosh and Jérémie Francfort and Rajeev Kumar Jain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.15341},
  year   = {2023}
}

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