Cosmological perturbations in Palatini formalism

Yamaguchi, Masahide and Kubota, Mio and Oda, Kinya and Shimada, Keigo (2022) Cosmological perturbations in Palatini formalism. Il nuovo cimento C, 45 (2). pp. 1-10. ISSN 1826-9885

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Abstract

In this article, we discuss cosmological perturbations of scalartensor theories in Palatini formalism. First we introduced an action where the Ricci scalar is conformally coupled to a function of a scalar field and its kinetic term and there is also a k-essence term consisting of the scalar and its kinetic term. This action has three frames that are equivalent to one another: the original Jordan frame, the Einstein frame where the metric is redefined, and the Riemann frame where the connection is redefined. We calculated the quadratic action and the sound speed of scalar and tensor perturbations in three different frames and show explicitly that they coincide. Furthermore, we showed that for such action the sound speed of gravitational waves is unity. Thus, this model serves as dark energy as well as an inflaton despite the presence of the dependence of the kinetic term of a scalar field in the non-minimal coupling, different from the case in metric formalism. We then proceeded to construct the L3 action called Galileon terms in Palatini formalism and compute its perturbations. We found that there are essentially 10 different (inequivalent) definitions in Palatini formalism for a given Galileon term in metric formalism. We also saw that, in general, the L3 terms have a ghost due to Ostrogradsky instability and the sound speed of gravitational waves could potentially deviate from unity, in sharp contrast with the case of metric formalism. Interestingly, once we eliminate such a ghost, the sound speed of gravitational waves also becomes unity. Thus, the ghost-free L3 terms in Palatini formalism can still serve as dark energy as well as an inflaton, like the case in metric formalism.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 530 Fisica
Depositing User:	Marina Spanti
Date Deposited:	05 May 2022 09:29
Last Modified:	05 May 2022 09:29
URI:	http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/21851

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