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most citedDBI Realizations of the Pseudo-Conformal Universe and Galilean Genesis Scenarios

79 citations · 247 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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gr-qc2014★ 3 cited

How General Relativity and Lorentz Covariance Arise from the Spatially Covariant Effective Field Theory of the Transverse, Traceless Graviton

Justin Khoury, Godfrey E. J. Miller, Andrew J. Tolley

Traditional derivations of general relativity from the graviton degrees of freedom assume space-time Lorentz covariance as an axiom. In this essay, we survey recent evidence that g…

hep-th2013★ 20 cited

On the Origin of Gravitational Lorentz Covariance

Justin Khoury, Godfrey E. J. Miller, Andrew J. Tolley

We provide evidence that general relativity is the unique spatially covariant effective field theory of the transverse, traceless graviton degrees of freedom. The Lorentz covarianc…

hep-th2012★ 76 cited

DBI Genesis: An Improved Violation of the Null Energy Condition

Kurt Hinterbichler, Austin Joyce, Justin Khoury +1

We show that the DBI conformal galileons, derived from the world-volume theory of a 3-brane moving in an AdS bulk, admit a background, stable under quantum corrections, which viola…

hep-th2012★ 79 cited

DBI Realizations of the Pseudo-Conformal Universe and Galilean Genesis Scenarios

Kurt Hinterbichler, Austin Joyce, Justin Khoury +1

The pseudo-conformal universe is an alternative to inflation in which the early universe is described by a conformal field theory on approximately flat space-time. The fields devel…

hep-th2011★ 29 cited

Spatially Covariant Theories of a Transverse, Traceless Graviton, Part I: Formalism

Justin Khoury, Godfrey E. J. Miller, Andrew J. Tolley

General relativity is a covariant theory of two transverse, traceless graviton degrees of freedom. According to a theorem of Hojman, Kuchar, and Teitelboim, modifications of genera…

hep-th2010★ 40 cited

Towards a Cosmological Dual to Inflation

Justin Khoury, Godfrey E. J. Miller

We derive all single-field cosmologies with unit sound speed that generate scale invariant curvature perturbations on a dynamical attractor background. We identify three distinct p…