The origin of structures in generalized gravity

DOI10.1023/A:1018861906676MaRDI QIDQ1289178zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jai-chan Hwang

Publication date 6 July 1999

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9711067

zbMATH Keywords

quantum fluctuationscosmic microwave background radiation anisotropiesgeneralized gravity theoriesmetric fluctuations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: In a class of generalized gravity theories with general couplings between the scalar field and the scalar curvature in the Lagrangian, we can describe the quantum generation and the classical evolution of both the scalar and tensor structures in a simple and unified manner. An accelerated expansion phase based on the generalized gravity in the early universe drives microscopic quantum fluctuations inside a causal domain to expand into macroscopic ripples in the spacetime metric on scales larger than the local horizon. Following their generation from quantum fluctuations, the ripples in the metric spend a long period outside the causal domain. During this phase their evolution is characterized by their conserved amplitudes. The evolution of these fluctuations may lead to the observed large scale structures of the universe and anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background radiation.

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