Noether Identities and Gauge-Fixing the Action for Cosmological Perturbations
arXiv:1311.3828 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.89.024034
Abstract
We propose and develop a general algorithm for finding the action for cosmological perturbations which rivals the conventional, gauge-invariant approach and can be applied to theories with more than one metric. We then apply it to a particular case of bigravity, focusing on the Eddington- inspired Born-Infeld theory, and show that we can obtain a nearly scale-invariant power spectrum for both scalar and tensor primordial quantum perturbations. Unfortunately, in the case of the minimal Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld theory, we find that the tensor-to-scalar ratio of perturbations is unacceptably large. We discuss the applicability of our general method and the possibility of resurrecting the specific theory we have looked at.
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