Derives the elastic two-body unitarity relation for anisotropic scalar fields with different sound speeds, verifies it at one loop in a quartic model, and shows anisotropy modifies the radiatively generated scalon mass while leaving the Gildener-Weinberg flat direction unchanged.
Bounce beyond Horndeski with GR asymptotics and $\gamma$-crossing
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It is known that beyond Horndeski theory admits healthy bouncing cosmological solutions. However, the constructions proposed so far do not reduce to General Relativity (GR) in either infinite past or infinite future or both. The obstacle is so called $\gamma$-crossing, which off hand appears pathological. By working in the unitary gauge, we confirm the recent observation by Ijjas [arXiv:1710.05990] that $\gamma$-crossing is, in fact, healthy. On this basis we construct a spatially flat, stable bouncing Universe solution whose asymptotic past and future are described by GR with conventional massless scalar field.
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Disparity in sound speeds: implications for elastic unitarity and the effective potential in quantum field theory theory
Derives the elastic two-body unitarity relation for anisotropic scalar fields with different sound speeds, verifies it at one loop in a quartic model, and shows anisotropy modifies the radiatively generated scalon mass while leaving the Gildener-Weinberg flat direction unchanged.
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Non-Gaussianity and Strong-Coupling Problem in a Two-Field DHOST Bouncing Model
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