Gauge-invariant gravitational wave modes in pre-big bang cosmology

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2010-09-03

arxiv.org/abs/1009.0660v1

Eur.Phys.J.C70:363-366,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

4 pages, latex, to appear in Eur. Phys. J. C

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1445-9

The t<0 branch of pre-big bang cosmological scenarios is subject to a gravitational wave instability. The unstable behaviour of tensor perturbations is derived in a very simple way in Hwang's covariant and gauge-invariant formalism developed for extended theories of gravity. A simple interpretation of this instability as the effect of an "antifriction" is given, and it is argued that a universe must eventually enter the expanding phase.

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