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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS A
Volume 35, Issue 27, Pages -Publisher
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X20501651
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Relic gravitons; cosmology; inflationary models
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In the same way as the energy density associated with the tensor modes of the geometry modifies the evolution of the curvature perturbations, the scalar modes may also indirectly affect the cosmic backgrounds of relic gravitons by inducing higher-order corrections that are only superficially gauge-invariant. This spurious gauge-invariance gets manifest when the effective anisotropic stresses, computed in different coordinate systems, are preliminarily expressed in a form that only depends on the curvature inhomogeneities defined on comoving orthogonal hypersurfaces and on their corresponding time derivatives. Using this observation we demonstrate in general terms that the higher-order contributions derived in diverse coordinate systems coincide when the wavelengths are smaller than the sound horizon defining the evolution of the curvature inhomogeneities but they lead to sharply different results in the opposite limit. A similar drawback arises when the energy density of the relic gravitons is derived from competing energy-momentum pseudotensors and should be consistently taken into account in the related phenomenological discussions.
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