Second-‐order actions of scalar perturbations We consider scalar metric perturbations , ⇥, R with <strong>the</strong> ADM metric ds 2 = [(1 + ) 2 a(t) 2 e 2R (⇤⇥) 2 ] dt 2 +2⇤ i ⇥ dt dx i + a(t) 2 e 2R dx 2 We choose <strong>the</strong> uniform field gauge: =0 The second-‐order action of scalar perturbations in <strong>the</strong> Horndeski’s <strong>the</strong>ory reduces to S 2 = dtd 3 xa 3 Q Ṙ2 c 2 s a 2 ( R)2 Q>0 and c 2 s > 0 are required to avoid ghosts and Laplacian instabilities. where Q = w 1(4w 1 w 3 +9w 2 2) 3w 2 2 , c 2 s = 3(2w2 1w 2 H w 2 2w 4 +4w 1 ẇ 1 w 2 2w 2 1ẇ 2 ) w 1 (4w 1 w 3 +9w 2 2 ) w 1 = MplF 2 4XG 4,X 2HX ˙G 5,X +2XG 5, w 2 =2MplHF 2 2X ˙G 3,X 16H(XG 4,X + X 2 G 4,XX )+2˙(G 4, +2XG 4, X ) 2H 2 ˙(5XG5,X +2X 2 G 5,XX )+4HX(3G 5, +2XG 5, X ) w 3 = 9MplH 2 2 F + 3(XP ,X +2X 2 P ,XX ) + 18H ˙(2XG 3,X + X 2 G 3,XX ) 6X(G 3, + XG 3, X ) +18H 2 (7XG 4,X + 16X 2 G 4,XX +4X 3 G 4,XXX ) 18H ˙(G 4, +5XG 4, X +2X 2 G 4, XX ) +6H 3 ˙(15XG5,X + 13X 2 G 5,XX +2X 3 G ,5XXX ) 18H 2 X(6G 5, +9XG 5, X +2X 2 G 5, XX ) w 4 = MplF 2 2XG 5, 2XG 5,X ¨
Power spectrum of curvature perturbations where Kobayashi et al. (2011) De Felice and S.T. (2011) where