Braneworld Cosmological Perturbations in Teleparallel Gravity

Autor: Behboodi, A., Akhshabi, S., Nozari, K.
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Physics Letters B 750C (2015) pp. 601-608
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.09.031
Popis: We describe the fully gauge invariant cosmological perturbation equations in braneworld teleparallel gravity. In this theory, perturbations are the result of small fluctuations in the pentad field. We derive the gauge invariant 'potentials' for both geometric and matter variables. Unlike the metric fluctuations in general relativity, pentad perturbations can only contain scalar and vector modes. As a result, in teleparallel gravity, tensor modes including gravitational waves, come from the contortion tensor.
Databáze: arXiv