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Inflationary perturbations with Lifshitz scaling

Arai, Shun
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Sibiryakov, Sergey  
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Urakaw, Yuko
March 1, 2019
Journal Of Cosmology And Astroparticle Physics

Instead of Lorentz invariance, gravitational degrees of freedom may obey Lifshitz scaling at high energies, as it happens in Horava's proposal for quantum gravity. We study consequences of this proposal for the spectra of primordial perturbations generated at inflation. Breaking of 4D diffeomorphism (Diff) invariance down to the foliation-preserving Diff in Horava-Lifshitz (HL) gravity leads to appearance of a scalar degree of freedom in the gravity sector, khronon, which describes dynamics of the time foliation. One can naively expect that mixing between inflaton and khronon will jeopardize conservation of adiabatic perturbations at super Hubble scales. This indeed happens in the projectable version of the theory. By contrast, we find that in the non-projectable version of HL gravity, khronon acquires an effective mass which is much larger than the Hubble scale well before the Hubble crossing time and decouples from the adiabatic curvature perturbation zeta sourced by the inflaton fluctuations. As a result, at super Hubble scales the adiabatic perturbation zeta behaves as in an effectively single field system and its spectrum is conserved in time. Lifshitz scaling is imprinted in the power spectrum of zeta through the modi fied dispersion relation of the inflaton. We point out violation of the consistency relation between the tensor-to-scalar ratio and the spectral tilt of primordial gravitational waves and suggest that it can provide a signal of Lorentz violation in inflationary era.

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research article
DOI
10.1088/1475-7516/2019/03/034
Web of Science ID

WOS:000462501100002

Author(s)
Arai, Shun
Sibiryakov, Sergey  
Urakaw, Yuko
Date Issued

2019-03-01

Publisher

IOP PUBLISHING LTD

Published in
Journal Of Cosmology And Astroparticle Physics
Issue

3

Start page

034

Subjects

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Physics, Particles & Fields

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Physics

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cosmological perturbation theory

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inflation

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quantum cosmology

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REVIEWED

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June 18, 2019
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