Wednesday, July 24, 2019

homework and exercises - Varying an action (cosmological perturbation theory)


I am stuck varying an action, trying to get an equation of motion. (Going from eq. 91 to eq. 92 in the image.) This is the action


S = d4xa2(t)2(˙h2(h)2).


And this is the solution,


¨h+2˙aa˙h2h = 0.


This is what I get


0(a20h)0(a2h)(a20h)+2(ha2) = 0.


I don't really see my mistake, perhaps I am missing something. (dot represents 0)


It is this problem (see Lectures on the Theory of Cosmological Perturbations, by Brandenburger):



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