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两自由度空间协变引力的微扰分析

Spatially covariant gravity with two degrees of freedom: perturbative analysis

Yu-Min Hu, Xian Gao

摘要:

我们重新审视了建立一大类尊重空间协方差的度量理论的拉格朗日量的问题,这些理论最多传播两个自由度,特别是没有标量模式。拉格朗日量是由空间协变几何量构建的多项式。通过在宇宙学背景下展开拉格朗日量并只关注标量模,我们找到了单项式系数的条件,以便在微扰中消除线性阶的标量模。我们找到了直到$d=4$的条件,其中$d$是单项式中导数的总数,并确定了$d=2$,$d=3$以及$d=2$和$d=3$组合情况下的显式拉格朗日量。我们还扩大了拉格朗日的$d=2$的立方阶扰动,并找到额外的条件系数,使标量模式被消除的立方阶。这种微扰分析可以一阶接一阶地进行,并且人们期望在某个有限阶确定最终的拉格朗日量,使得标量模式被完全消除。我们的分析提供了一种替代和补充的方法来建立空间协变重力只有张量自由度。由此产生的理论可以作为广义相对论的替代来描述宇宙学背景下的张量引力波。

英文摘要:

We revisit the problem of building the Lagrangian of a large class of metric theories that respect spatial covariance, which propagate at most two degrees of freedom and in particular no scalar mode. The Lagrangians are polynomials built of the spatially covariant geometric quantities. By expanding the Lagrangian around a cosmological background and focusing on the scalar modes only, we find the conditions for the coefficients of the monomials in order to eliminate the scalar mode at the linear order in perturbations. We find the conditions up to $d=4$ with $d$ the total number of derivatives in the monomials and determine the explicit Lagrangians for the cases of $d=2$, $d=3$ as well as the combination of $d=2$ and $d=3$. We also expand the Lagrangian of $d=2$ to the cubic order in perturbations, and find additional conditions for the coefficients such that the scalar mode is eliminated up to the cubic order. This perturbative analysis can be performed order by order, and one expects to determine the final Lagrangian at some finite order such that the scalar mode is fully eliminated. Our analysis provides an alternative and complimentary approach to building spatially covariant gravity with only tensorial degrees of freedom. The resulting theories can be used as alternatives to the general relativity to describe the tensorial gravitational waves in a cosmological setting.

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