Generating primordial fluctuations from modified teleparallel gravity with local Lorentz-symmetry breaking

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2020.135696MaRDI QIDQ822335zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza, Giovanni Otalora

Publication date 22 September 2021

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03753

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear and affine connections (53B05) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10)

Abstract: In the context of modified teleparallel gravity, we study the generation of primordial density fluctuations in a general scalar-torsion theory whose Lagrangian density is an arbitrary function $f(T,phi)$ of the torsion scalar $T$ and a scalar field $phi$, plus the kinetic term of this latter. It is well known that generic modifications of teleparallel gravity are not invariant under six-parameter local Lorentz transformations. In order to restore the local Lorentz symmetry, we have incorporated six additional degrees of freedom in the form of Goldstone modes of the symmetry breaking through a Lorentz rotation of the tetrad field. After integrating out all the auxiliary modes, we obtain a second order action for the scalar and tensor propagating modes and their power spectrum generated during inflation. It is found that an explicit mass term emerges in the second order action for curvature perturbation, describing the imprints of local Lorentz violation at first-order of slow-roll. We show that only inflationary models with nonminimal coupling functions $f(T,phi)$ which are non-linear in $T$, including the case of $f(T)$ gravity with minimally coupled scalar field, can generate primordial fluctuations. For a concrete model of inflation, we study the power-law potential by using the latest Planck data.

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