Séminaire / Seminar GReCO |
| « Dark Energy Instabilities induced by Gravitational Waves » |
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Giovanni Tambalo |
| In this talk I will discuss the decay of gravitational waves (GW) into dark energy fluctuations p in the context of the EFT of Dark Energy. In such theories, the time-dependence of the Dark Energy (DE) field spontaneously breaks Lorentz invariance. Therefore as for light in a material, GW travelling in the cosmic medium are affected by dispersion phenomena and can decay into DE fluctuations. For cubic Horndeski and beyond Horndeski theories, the gravitational wave acts as a classical background for p and thus modifies its dynamics. In particular, for a sufficiently large amplitude of the wave, the kinetic term of p becomes pathological, featuring gradient and ghost instabilities. For smaller gravitational wave amplitude, p fluctuations are described by a Mathieu equation and feature instability bands that grow exponentially. The gravitational wave signal is affected by the p back-reaction and this provides very stringent bounds on cubic and quartic Gleyzes-Langlois-Piazza-Vernizzi (GLPV) theories. |
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lundi 11 mai 2020 - 11:00 Webinaire Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris |
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