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arxiv: 1708.04262 · v2 · pith:5VLTLID7new · submitted 2017-08-14 · ✦ hep-th · gr-qc

Perturbations in generalized Galileon theories

classification ✦ hep-th gr-qc
keywords dpsvgaugemathcalperturbationsactionapproachesgalileoninvariant
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We discuss the approaches by Deffayet et al. (DPSV) and Kobayashi et al. (KYY) to the analysis of linearized scalar perturbations about a spatially flat FLRW background in Horndeski theory. We identify additional, potentially important terms in the DPSV approach. However, these terms vanish upon a judicious gauge choice. We derive a gauge invariant quadratic action for metric and Galileon perturbations in $\mathcal{L}_3$ and $\mathcal{L}_3+\mathcal{L}_4$ theories and show that actions obtained in the DPSV and KYY approaches follow from this gauge invariant action in particular gauges.

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