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arxiv: 1006.3216 · v2 · pith:BVGIC6YDnew · submitted 2010-06-16 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO · gr-qc· hep-ph

Bimetric structure formation: non-Gaussian predictions

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keywords bimetricmodelsdisformaldistortionequilateralindexinflationnon-gaussian
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The minimal bimetric theory employing a disformal transformation between matter and gravity metrics is known to produce exactly scale-invariant fluctuations. It has a purely equilateral non-Gaussian signal, with an amplitude smaller than that of DBI inflation (with opposite sign) but larger than standard inflation. We consider non-minimal bimetric models, where the coupling $B$ appearing in the disformal transformation ${\hat g}_{\mn}= g_{\mn} -B\partial_\mu\phi\partial_\nu\phi$ can run with $\phi$. For power-law $B(\phi)$ these models predict tilted spectra. For each value of the spectral index, a distinctive distortion to the equilateral property can be found. The constraint between this distortion and the spectral index can be seen as a "consistency relation" for non-minimal bimetric models.

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