Perturbations of Mimetic Curvaton

TL;DR

This paper explores a modified mimetic gravity model where the curvaton field's perturbation dynamics are extended by treating a key parameter as an auxiliary field, enabling scale-invariant adiabatic perturbations.

Contribution

It introduces a novel treatment of the parameter lambda as an auxiliary field, allowing for perturbed dynamics and scale-invariant perturbations in the mimetic curvaton model.

Findings

Perturbed lambda field enables adiabatic perturbation generation.

Scale invariance achieved with different field configurations.

Perturbed dynamics differ from original model without lambda perturbation.

Abstract

The mimetic gravity theory is one of the interesting modified gravity theories, which aims to unify the matter component of our universe within the power of gravity. The mimetic-like theory can also be responsible for primordial perturbations production, e.g., when the mimetic field is set to be like a curvaton field, and the adiabatic perturbation can thus be generated from the isocurvature perturbation via usual curvaton mechanism [1]. In the original mimetic curvaton model, the parameter $\lambda$ was purely an algebraic multiplier, lack of any perturbed dynamics. In the current paper, we treat $\lambda$ as an auxiliary field, with its perturbation $\delta\lambda$ evolving alongside. We show that, with such a consideration, the adiabatic perturbation can still be generated from the curvaton mechanism, and becomes scale invariant with different field space configurations.