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Scalar perturbations of Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld braneworld

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-09-27 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We consider the scalar perturbations of Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld braneworld models in this paper. The dynamical equation for the physical propagating degree of freedom ξ(xμ,y)\xi(x^\mu,y) is achieved by using the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner decomposition method: F1(y)y2ξ+F2(y)yξ+μμξ=0F_1(y) {\partial_y^2 \xi} + F_2(y){\partial_y \xi } + {\partial^{\mu}\partial_{\mu}}\xi=0. We conclude that the solution is tachyonic-free and stable under scalar perturbations for F1(y)>0F_1(y)>0 but unstable for F1(y)<0F_1(y)< 0. The stability of a known analytic domain wall solution with the warp factor given by a(y)=sech34p(ky)a(y)= \text{sech}^{\frac{3}{{4p}}}(ky) is analyzed and it is shown that only the solution for 0<p<8/30<p<\sqrt{8/3} is stable.

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@article{arxiv.1706.04818,
  title  = {Scalar perturbations of Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld braneworld},
  author = {Ke Yang and Yu-Xiao Liu and Bin Guo and Xiao-Long Du},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.04818},
  year   = {2017}
}

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16 pages, 1 figure, accepted by Physical Review D