2010

Primordial Perturbations in Einstein-Aether and BPSH Theories

Armendariz-Picon, Cristian, Sierra, Noela Farina, Garriga, Jaume

Understand

We study the primordial perturbations generated during a stage of single-field inflation in Einstein-aether theories.

  • Quantum fluctuations of the inflaton and aether fields seed long wavelength adiabatic and isocurvature scalar perturbations, as well as transverse vector perturbations.
  • Geometrically, the isocurvature mode is the potential for the velocity field of the aether with respect to matter.
  • For a certain range of parameters, this mode may lead to a sizable random velocity of the aether within the observable universe.

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