Attractor solutions in tachyacoustic cosmology

作者:Bessada Dennis*; Kinney William H
来源:Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2012, 86(8).
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.86.083502

摘要

We study the dynamical stability of tachyacoustic cosmological models, in which primordial perturbations are generated by a shrinking sound horizon during a period of decelerating expansion. Such models represent a potential alternative to inflationary cosmology, but the phase-space behavior of tachyacoustic solutions has not previously been investigated. We numerically evaluate the dynamics of two noncanonical Lagrangians, a cuscuton-like Lagrangian and a Dirac-Born-Infeld Lagrangian, which generate a scale-invariant spectrum of perturbations. We show that the power-law background solutions in both cases are dynamical attractors.

  • 出版日期2012-10-1