Comparison of dynamical and spectator models of a (pseudo)conformal universe

DOI10.1007/S11232-012-0126-2zbMATH Open1282.83074arXiv1107.1036OpenAlexW3098411871MaRDI QIDQ394885FDOQ394885

Authors: M. V. Libanov, V. A. Rubakov 

Publication date: 28 January 2014

Published in: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss two versions of the conformal scenario for generating scalar cosmological perturbations: a spectator version with a scalar field conformally coupled to gravity and carrying negligible energy density, and a dynamical version with a scalar field minimally coupled to gravity and dominating the cosmological evolution. By making use of the Newtonian gauge, we show that (i) no UV strong coupling scale is generated below $M_{Pl}$ due to mixing with metric perturbations in the dynamical scenario, and (ii) the dynamical and spectator models yield identical results to the leading non-linear order. We argue that these results, which include potentially observable effects like statistical anisotropy and non-Gaussianity, are characteristic of the entire class of conformal models. As an example, we reproduce, within the dynamical scenario and working in comoving gauge, our earlier result on the statistical anisotropy, which was originally obtained within the spectator approach.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.1036

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmological perturbation theoryinflation alternative

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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