No Slip CMB
Abstract
No Slip Gravity is a simple modified gravity theory with only one free function and the interesting characteristic that -- unlike many modified gravity theories -- it suppresses growth. This allows it to fit current redshift space distortion and mass fluctuation amplitude data better than CDM in general relativity, while retaining a CDM background expansion and hence distances. Since it has no gravitational slip it alters equally CMB lensing and matter density growth, and in addition affects the CMB gravitational wave B-mode polarization power spectrum. We investigate and compute the effects of No Slip Gravity for CMB lensing and B-modes, and present a simple analytic approximation. Using a Monte Carlo analysis, we place constraints on the theory from current CMB data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1810.12337,
title = {No Slip CMB},
author = {Micah Brush and Eric V. Linder and Miguel Zumalacárregui},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.12337},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
9 pages, 9 figures