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We study the gauge invariant cosmological perturbations up to second order. We show that there are infinite families of gauge invariant variables at both of the first and second orders. The conversion formulae among different families are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Zhe Chang , Sai Wang , Qing-Hua Zhu

We implement the method developed in [1] to construct the most general parametrised action for linear cosmological perturbations of bimetric theories of gravity. Specifically, we consider perturbations around a homogeneous and isotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-27 Macarena Lagos , Pedro G. Ferreira

Recently a new approach in constructing the conserved charges in cosmological Einstein's gravity was given. In this new formulation, instead of using the explicit form of the field equations a covariantly conserved rank four tensor was…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-07 Emel Altas

We consider in detail the problem of gauge dependence that exists in relativistic perturbation theory, going beyond the linear approximation and treating second and higher order perturbations. We first derive some mathematical results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Marco Bruni , Sabino Matarrese , Silvia Mollerach , Sebastiano Sonego

The theory of cosmological perturbations has become a cornerstone of modern quantitative cosmology since it is the framework which provides the link between the models of the very early Universe such as the inflationary Universe scenario…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Robert H. Brandenberger

Some formulae for the perturbations of the matter fields are summarized within the framework of the second-order gauge-invariant cosmological perturbation theory in a four dimensional homogeneous isotropic universe, which is developed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Kouji Nakamura

A major challenge at the interface of quantum gravity and cosmology is to explain the emergence of the large-scale structure of the Universe from Planck scale physics. In this letter, we extract the dynamics of scalar isotropic cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-23 Alexander F. Jercher , Luca Marchetti , Andreas G. A. Pithis

The quantum gravity is formulated based on principle of local gauge invariance. The model discussed in this paper has local gravitational gauge symmetry and gravitational field is represented by gauge field. In leading order approximation,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ning Wu

A linear cosmological perturbation theory of an almost homogeneous and isotropic perfect fluid Universe with dynamically evolving Newton constant $G$ and cosmological constant $\Lambda$ is presented. A gauge-invariant formalism is developed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 A. Bonanno , M. Reuter

We consider a model for gravity that is invariant under global scale transformations. It includes one extra real scalar field coupled non-minimally to the gravity fields. In this model all the dimensionful parameters like the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-06 Pankaj Jain , Purnendu Karmakar , Subhadip Mitra , Sukanta Panda , Naveen K. Singh

A new gauge-invariant approach for describing cosmological perturbations is developed. It is based on a physically motivated splitting of the stress-energy tensor of the perturbation into two parts - the bare perturbation and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Sergei M. Kopeikin , Juan Ramirez , Bahram Mashhoon , Mikhail V. Sazhin

Gauge invariant treatments of the second order cosmological perturbation in a four dimensional homogeneous isotropic universe filled with the perfect fluid are completely formulated without any gauge fixing. We derive all components of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Kouji Nakamura

We show that perturbative quantum gravity based on the Einstein-Hilbert action, has a novel continuum limit. The renormalized trajectory emanates from the Gaussian fixed point along (marginally) relevant directions but enters the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-09 Matthew Kellett , Alex Mitchell , Tim R. Morris

In this paper we present a cosmological model arising from a non-conservative gravitational theory proposed in [PRD 95, 101501(R) (2017)]. The novel feature where comparing with previous implementations of dissipative effects in gravity is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-28 Júlio C. Fabris , Hermano Velten , Thiago R. P. Caramês , Matheus J. Lazo , Gastão S. F. Frederico

The cosmological constant problem is principally concerned with trying to understand how the zero-point energy of quantum fields contributes to gravity. Here we take the approach that by addressing a fundamental unresolved issue in quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-30 T. P. Singh

Cosmological perturbation equations derived from low-energy effective actions are shown to be invariant under a duality transformation reminiscent of electric-magnetic, strong-weak coupling, S-duality. A manifestly duality-invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Brustein , M. Gasperini , G. Veneziano

We construct a position-space cosmological perturbation theory around spatially flat Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker geometries that allows to model localized primordial sources of gravitational waves. The equations of motion are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Geoffrey Compère , Sk Jahanur Hoque

We extend the general framework of perturbative quantum field theory developped for the pure Yang-Mills model to gravity. First we present a variant of the elimination procedure of the anomalies in the second order of perturbation theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-13 Dan-Radu Grigore

Recently, we presented a unified way of analysing classical cosmological perturbation in generalized gravity theories. In this paper, we derive the perturbation spectrums generated from quantum fluctuations again in unified forms. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 J. Hwang

Using the existence of a covariant conserved quantity on large perturbation scales in a spatially flat perfect fluid or scalar field universe, we present a general formula for gauge-invariantly defined comoving energy density perturbations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Winfried Zimdahl , Diego Pavon