Conservation of the nonlinear curvature perturbation in generic single-field inflation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/28/7/072001MaRDI QIDQ2999446zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Atsushi Naruko, Misao Sasaki

Publication date 13 May 2011

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.3180

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25)

Abstract: It is known that the curvature perturbation on uniform energy density (or comoving or uniform Hubble) slices on superhorizon scales is conserved to full nonlinear order if the pressure is only a function of the energy density (ie, if the perturbation is purely adiabatic), independent of the gravitational theory. Here we explicitly show that the same conservation holds for a universe dominated by a single scalar field provided that the field is in an attractor regime, for a very general class of scalar field theories. However, we also show that if the scalar field equation contains a second time derivative of the metric, as in the case of the Galileon theory, one has to invoke the gravitational field equations to show the conservation.

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