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活的和好的:模仿引力和根据GW170817的高阶扩展

Alive and well: mimetic gravity and a higher-order extension in light of GW170817

Alessandro Casalino, Massimiliano Rinaldi, Lorenzo Sebastiani, Sunny Vagnozzi

摘要:

对引力波(GW)事件GW 170817及其光学对应物短$γ$射线爆发GRB 170817 A的几乎同时的多信使探测表明,GW速度与光速的偏差被限制在${\cal O}(10^{-15})$。在这篇文章中,我们研究了这个界对模拟引力的影响,并证实在理论的原始设置中,GWs以光速传播,从而确保与最近的多信使探测一致。一个高阶扩展的原始模拟理论,出现在低能量极限的可投射的Hodiava-Lifshitz引力,然后考虑。进行贝叶斯统计分析,我们比较高阶模拟模型的预测GWs的速度对观测界从GW 170817/GRB 170817 A,我们得到的三个自由参数的理论约束。在不存在鬼不稳定性和标量和张量扰动的超光速传播的情况下,我们分别找到了$\nabla^μ\nabla^νϕ\nabla_μ\nabla_νϕ$和$(\Box ϕ)^2$形式的拉格朗日项耦合强度的$\sim 7 \times 10^{-15}$和$\sim 4 \times 10^{-15}$的95%置信度上限,其中$ϕ$是模拟场.我们讨论的影响所获得的界限模仿理论。这项工作提出了有史以来第一次强大的比较模拟理论的观测数据。

英文摘要:

The near-simultaneous multi-messenger detection of the gravitational wave (GW) event GW170817 and its optical counterpart, the short $γ$-ray burst GRB170817A, implies that deviations of the GW speed from the speed of light are restricted to being of ${\cal O}(10^{-15})$. In this note, we study the implications of this bound for mimetic gravity and confirm that in the original setting of the theory, GWs propagate at the speed of light, hence ensuring agreement with the recent multi-messenger detection. A higher-order extension of the original mimetic theory, appearing in the low-energy limit of projectable Hořava-Lifshitz gravity, is then considered. Performing a Bayesian statistical analysis where we compare the predictions of the higher-order mimetic model for the speed of GWs against the observational bound from GW170817/GRB170817A, we derive constraints on the three free parameters of the theory. Imposing the absence of both ghost instabilities and superluminal propagation of scalar and tensor perturbations, we find very stringent 95\% confidence level upper limits of $\sim 7 \times 10^{-15}$ and $\sim 4 \times 10^{-15}$ on the coupling strengths of Lagrangian terms of the form $\nabla^μ\nabla^νϕ\nabla_μ\nabla_νϕ$ and $(\Box ϕ)^2$ respectively, with $ϕ$ the mimetic field. We discuss implications of the obtained bounds for mimetic theories. This work presents the first ever robust comparison of a mimetic theory to observational data.

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