A general theory of linear cosmological perturbations: bimetric theories

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Published 23 January 2017 © 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl
, , Citation Macarena Lagos and Pedro G. Ferreira JCAP01(2017)047 DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/01/047

1475-7516/2017/01/047

Abstract

We implement the method developed in [1] to construct the most general parametrised action for linear cosmological perturbations of bimetric theories of gravity. Specifically, we consider perturbations around a homogeneous and isotropic background, and identify the complete form of the action invariant under diffeomorphism transformations, as well as the number of free parameters characterising this cosmological class of theories. We discuss, in detail, the case without derivative interactions, and compare our results with those found in massive bigravity.

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10.1088/1475-7516/2017/01/047