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双引力中的张量模式:从原始到现在

Tensor Modes in Bigravity: Primordial to Present

Matthew Johnson, Alexandra Terrana

摘要:

大质量双引力理论是广义相对论的一个理论上一致的修正,增加了一个动力学秩2张量,成功地描述了观测到的宇宙加速膨胀,而没有宇宙学常数。最近对宇宙学背景扰动的分析揭示了标量和张量扰动的幂律不稳定性,激发了对初始条件、演化和宇宙学观测量的分析,以确定这些理论的可行性。本文以张量扇区为研究对象,研究了大质量双引力场中的原初随机引力波背景。由于理论中两个线性化张量涨落之间的非平凡混合,其中只有一个耦合到物质,现象学可以不同于标准的广义相对论。本文研究了双引力场中两类宇宙学解的微扰,计算了在宇宙微波背景辐射和当前随机引力波背景中张量对温度各向异性的贡献。结果强烈依赖于宇宙学背景和初始条件的选择。一类背景解一般显示出大波长引力波振幅的巨大增长,而另一类在各种初始条件下仍然与标准广义相对论在观测上无法区分。我们分析了在暴胀宇宙学中预期的张量模式的初始条件,再次发现,有一个很强的依赖于假设的背景。对于一种背景选择,半经典理论超出了微扰范围。对于另一种选择,暴胀一般会产生初始条件,当这些条件演化时,会产生一个在观测上与标准广义相对论无法区分的随机背景。

英文摘要:

Massive bigravity, a theoretically consistent modification of general relativity with an additional dynamical rank two tensor, successfully describes the observed accelerated expansion of the Universe without a cosmological constant. Recent analyses of perturbations around a cosmological background have revealed power law instabilities in both scalar and tensor perturbations, motivating an analysis of the initial conditions, evolution, and cosmological observables to determine the viability of these theories. In this paper we focus on the tensor sector, and study a primordial stochastic gravitational wave background in massive bigravity. The phenomenology can differ from standard General Relativity due to non-trivial mixing between the two linearized tensor fluctuations in the theory, only one of which couples to matter. We study perturbations about two classes of cosmological solutions in bigravity, computing the tensor contribution to the temperature anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation and the present stochastic gravitational wave background. The result is strongly dependent on the choice of cosmological background and initial conditions. One class of background solution generically displaying tremendous growth in the amplitude of large-wavelength gravitational waves, while the other remains observationally indistinguishable from standard General Relativity for a wide variety of initial conditions. We analyze the initial conditions for tensor modes expected in an inflationary cosmology, finding again that there is a strong dependence on the assumed background. For one choice of background, the semi-classical theory is beyond the perturbative regime. For the other choice, inflation generically yields initial conditions that, when evolved, give rise to a stochastic background observationally indistinguishable from standard General Relativity.

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