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Primordial Gravitational Waves in Bimetric Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-09-18 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study primordial tensor power-spectra generated during inflation in bimetric gravity. More precisely, we examine a homogeneous expanding spacetime in a minimal bimetric model with an inflaton and calculate tensor perturbations on the homogeneous background under slow-roll approximation. In terms of the mass eigenstates, only the power-spectrum of the massless state remains constant and both the power-spectrum of the massive state and the cross power-spectrum rapidly decay during inflation. The amplitude of the physical power-spectrum is suppressed due to the flavor mixing. All power-spectra in the flavor eigenstates coincide with each other up to the first order of the slow-roll parameter.

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@article{arxiv.1504.04969,
  title  = {Primordial Gravitational Waves in Bimetric Gravity},
  author = {Yuki Sakakihara and Jiro Soda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.04969},
  year   = {2015}
}

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22 pages, references added, typos corrected

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