Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/10/021
Keywords
modified gravity; physics of the early universe; cosmological perturbation theory
Funding
- ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) [ANR-09-BLAN-0157-01]
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We prove the existence of a fully nonlinear conserved curvature perturbation on large scales in Galileon-type scalar field models in two approaches. The first approach is based on the conservation of energy-momentum tensor of the Galileon field, which is also the familiar approach in understanding the conservation in k-essence or perfect fluid models. We show that the fluid corresponding to the Galileon field becomes perfect and barotropic on large scales, winch is responsible to the conservation. The difference from k-essence model is that, besides the energy-momentum conservation, the Einstein equation must be employed in order to complete the proof of barotropy. In the second approach, we derive the fully non-perturbative action for the curvature perturbation zeta in Galileon models on large scales, and argue that zeta = const is indeed an exact solution on large scales. This conservation of curvature perturbation is important since it relates the later and the primordial universe.
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