UV sensitive one-loop matter power spectrum in degenerate higher-order scalar-tensor theories

Shi'ichi Hirano, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Daisuke Yamauchi, Shuichiro Yokoyama

We study matter density perturbations up to third order and the one-loop matter power spectrum in degenerate higher-order scalar-tensor (DHOST) theories beyond Horndeski. We systematically solve gravitational field equations and fluid equations order by order, and find three novel shape functions characterizing the third-order solution in DHOST theories. A complete form of the one-loop matter power spectrum is then obtained using the resultant second- and third-order solutions. We confirm the previous result that the convergence condition of the loop integrals in the infrared limit becomes more stringent than that of the standard one in general relativity. We show that also in the ultraviolet limit the convergence condition becomes more stringent and the one-loop matter power spectrum is thus sensitive to the short-wavelength behavior of the linear power spectrum.

Physical Review D

102

103505

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.103505

2008.02798