Tensor ghosts in the inflationary cosmology

Details Tensor ghosts in the inflationary cosmology Tensor ghosts in the inflationary cosmology

2009-07-22

arxiv.org/abs/0907.3868v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

16 pages, no figures

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Theories with curvature squared terms in the action are known to contain ghost modes in general. However, if we regard curvature squared terms as quantum corrections to the original theory, the emergence of ghosts may be simply due to the perturbative truncation of a full non-perturbative theory. If this is the case, there should be a way to live with ghosts. In this paper, we take the Euclidean path integral approach, in which ghost degrees of freedom can be, and are integrated out in the Euclideanized spacetime. We apply this procedure to Einstein gravity with a Weyl curvature squared correction in the inflationary background. We find that the amplitude of tensor perturbations is modified by a term of O(alpha^2 H^2) where alpha^2 is a coupling constant in front of the Weyl squared term and H is the Hubble parameter during inflation.

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