Perturbative analysis of generalized Einstein's theories

The hypothesis that the energy-momentum tensor of ordinary matter is not conserved separately, leads to a non-adiabatic expansion and, in many cases, to an Universe older than usual. This may provide a solution for the entropy and age problems of the Standard Cosmological Model. We consider two different theories of this type, and we perform a perturbative analysis, leading to analytical expressions for the evolution of gravitational waves, rotational modes and density perturbations. One of these theories exhibits satisfactory properties at this level, while the other one should be discarded.Comment: 14 pages, Latex fil

Pseudoinversion of degenerate metrics

Let (M,g) be a smooth manifold M endowed with a metric g. A large class of differential operators in differential geometry is intrinsically defined by means of the dual metric g∗ on the dual bundle TM∗ of 1-forms on M. If the metric g is (semi)-Riemannian, the metric g∗ is just the inverse of g. This paper studies the definition of the above-mentioned geometric differential operators in the case of manifolds endowed with degenerate metrics for which g∗ is not defined. We apply the theoretical results to Laplacian-type operator on a lightlike hypersurface to deduce a Takahashi-like theorem (Takahashi (1966)) for lightlike hypersurfaces in Lorentzian space ℝ1n+2