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伽利略宇宙学

Galileon Cosmology

Nathan Chow, Justin Khoury

摘要:

我们研究的伽利略标量张量理论的宇宙学,通过协变的Dvali-Gabadadze-Poratti(DGP)模型的解耦拉格朗日。尽管在3+1维中是局部的,但由此产生的宇宙学演化与完整的4+1维DGP框架非常相似,无论是膨胀历史还是密度扰动的演化。与DGP模型一样,协变伽利略理论根据伽利略速度的符号产生两个解的分支。扰动在一个分支上是稳定的,在另一个分支上是幽灵般的。在我们的分析中发现的一个有趣的效应是Vainshtein屏蔽机制的宇宙学版本:在早期,伽利略动力学由自相互作用项主导,导致其能量密度与物质或辐射相比受到抑制;一旦物质密度发生足够的红移,伽利略就成为能量密度的重要组成部分,并有助于产生暗能量。我们保守地估计,只要修正尺度满足rc> 15 Gpc,由此产生的膨胀历史与观测到的晚期宇宙学是一致的。

英文摘要:

We study the cosmology of a galileon scalar-tensor theory, obtained by covariantizing the decoupling lagrangian of the Dvali-Gabadadze-Poratti (DGP) model. Despite being local in 3+1 dimensions, the resulting cosmological evolution is remarkably similar to that of the full 4+1-dimensional DGP framework, both for the expansion history and the evolution of density perturbations. As in the DGP model, the covariant galileon theory yields two branches of solutions, depending on the sign of the galileon velocity. Perturbations are stable on one branch and ghost-like on the other. An interesting effect uncovered in our analysis is a cosmological version of the Vainshtein screening mechanism: at early times, the galileon dynamics are dominated by self-interaction terms, resulting in its energy density being suppressed compared to matter or radiation; once the matter density has redshifted sufficiently, the galileon becomes an important component of the energy density and contributes to dark energy. We estimate conservatively that the resulting expansion history is consistent with the observed late-time cosmology, provided that the scale of modification satisfies r_c > 15 Gpc.

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