A preliminary study on linear perturbation for a non-minimal derivative coupling scalar-tensor theory

Abstract

The Cisterna-Delsate-Rinaldi (CDR) model is a variant of scalar-tensor theory that modify gravity by including a term of non-minimal derivative coupling. This model gives interesting aspects in the properties of compact objects, specifically neutron stars. By adjusting one of its parameters, the maximum possible mass of neutron stars can be increased. The authors of the model had also did a perturbation analysis using odd-parity perturbation and following that they also did analysis on the slowly-rotating neutron stars. In this paper, we report our ongoing research on the linear perturbation for the Cisterna model to see its dynamical properties. More precisely, we work on the polar perturbation that affected both the metric and the scalar field, which is different from the axial perturbation used in the slow rotation case. We use higher-dimensional spacetimes to see if the obtained equations will be dimensionally dependent. To simplify calculations for this metric form, we use tetrad method. Currently, we have not succeeded in obtaining the equations of motions in the form of Regge-Wheeler-Zerilli wave equation. The reason is the metric functions cannot be easily decoupled and we find no second derivatives with respect to both time t and radius r in the equations of motion. Only the scalar field can give a wave equation. Further investigation is undergoing.

Keywords

• linear perturbation
• non-minimal derivative coupling