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Poincar\'e gauge theory of gravity offers opportunities to solve some principal problems of general relativity theory and modern cosmology. In the frame of this theory the gravitational interaction can have the repulsion character in the…

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We investigate the structure of gravitational self-interactions of coherently oscillating axions in the general relativistic framework. A generic action for a massive scalar field in the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background is first…

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In cosmic inflation, non-linearities of the curvature perturbation can induce backreaction to the background. To obtain observational predictions at non-linear order on the correct background, one has to redefine the background or introduce…

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We extend the reach of the ``cosmological collider'' for massive gauge boson production during inflation from the CMB scales to the interferometer scales. Considering a Chern-Simons coupling between the gauge bosons and the pseudoscalar…

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We consider an action for gravity that, in addition to the Einstein-Hilbert term, contains a function of the Ricci scalar and the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. The specific form of the function considered is motivated by holographic cosmology. At…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-27 Nicolas R. Bertini , Neven Bilic , Davi C. Rodrigues

The next decade will feature an abundance of novel cosmological data, while many fundamental questions about inflation remain. Given this, there is ample need for maximally efficient calculations, especially in non-standard scenarios for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-10 Panagiotis Christeas , Logan Thomas

A brief introduction to the gauge invariant classical and quantum theory of cosmological perturbations is given. The formalism is applied to inflationary Universe models and yields a consistent and unified description of the generation and…

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We discuss the evolution of linear perturbations about a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background metric, using only the local conservation of energy-momentum. We show that on sufficiently large scales the curvature perturbation on spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 David Wands , Karim A. Malik , David H. Lyth , Andrew R. Liddle

We investigate the backreaction of nonlinear perturbations on the global evolution of the Universe within the cosmic screening approach. To this end, we have considered the second-order scalar perturbations. An analytical study of these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-04 Maxim Eingorn , Brianna O'Briant , Adjaratou Diouf , Alexander Zhuk

The Universe is homogeneous and isotropic on large scales, so on those scales it is usually modelled as a Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) space-time. The non-linearity of the Einstein field equations raises concern over…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-03 Yonadav Barry Ginat

It is believed that the recent detection of large tensor perturbations strongly favors the inflation scenario in the early universe. This common sense depends on the assumption that Einstein's general relativity is valid at the early…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Mingzhe Li

We address the issue of cosmological backreaction from non-linear structure formation by constructing an approximation for the time evolved metric of a dust dominated universe based on a gradient expansion. Our metric begins as a…

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A decoupled system of hyperbolic partial differential equations for linear perturbations around any spatially flat FRW universe is obtained for a wide class of perturbations. The considered perturbing energy momentum-tensors can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Ramirez , S. Kopeikin

We present the first computation of the cosmological perturbations generated during inflation up to second order in deviations from the homogeneous background solution. Our results, which fully account for the inflaton self-interactions as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-05 V. Acquaviva , N. Bartolo , S. Matarrese , A. Riotto

We attempt to construct a gravitational coupling by pre-selecting an energy-momentum tensor as the source for gravitational field. The energy-momentum tensor we take is a recently derived new expression motivated by joint localization of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-10 Tao Lei , Zi-Wei Chen , Zhen-Lai Wang , Xiang-Song Chen

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

In general relativity, it has been shown that the effective gravitational stress-energy tensor for short-wavelength metric perturbations acts just like that for a radiation fluid, and thus, in particular, cannot provide any effects that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-21 Keiki Saito , Akihiro Ishibashi

In order to infer the impact of the small-scale physics to the large-scale properties of the universe, we use a series of cosmological $N$-body simulations of self-gravitating matter inhomogeneities to measure, for the first time, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 Takahiro Nishimichi , Francis Bernardeau , Atsushi Taruya

We consider a cosmological model starting from (1) the(1+3+6)-dimensional space-times consisting of the outer space (the 3-dimensional expanding section) and the inner space (the 6-dimensional section) and reaching (2) the Friedmann model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-24 Kenji Tomita